{"id":240189,"date":"2016-03-22T12:23:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471138"},"modified":"2016-03-22T12:23:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T16:23:20","slug":"wwii-veteran-soars-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240189","title":{"rendered":"WWII veteran soars again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471138\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/03\/160321-F-AA000-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When you think of a birthday party, what comes to mind? Perhaps streamers, balloons, decorated cakes and a boisterous celebration?<\/p>\n<p>But would you imagine a birthday celebration 10,000 feet in the sky?<\/p>\n<p>For Jack Woods, World War II veteran, on Feb. 29, 2016, it became reality.<\/p>\n<p>It all started in early January with a chance encounter at the supermarket, when Karen Woods, Jack&#8217;s wife, saw the young daughters of Majs. Bryan Kim, 4th Space Operations Squadron assistant operations officer, and Jackie Kim, 21st Medical Squadron group practice manager.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471138\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471138\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/03\/160321-F-AA000-001.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When you think of a birthday party, what comes to mind? Perhaps streamers, balloons, decorated cakes and a boisterous celebration?<\/p>\n<p>But would you imagine a birthday celebration 10,000 feet in the sky?<\/p>\n<p>For Jack Woods, World War II veteran, on Feb. 29, 2016, it became reality.<\/p>\n<p>It all started in early January with a chance encounter at the supermarket, when Karen Woods, Jack&#8217;s wife, saw the young daughters of Majs. Bryan Kim, 4th Space Operations Squadron assistant operations officer, and Jackie Kim, 21st Medical Squadron group practice manager.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471138\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240190,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240189\/revisions\/240190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}