{"id":240354,"date":"2016-04-06T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471913"},"modified":"2016-04-06T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T16:46:21","slug":"history-heritage-and-keeping-culture-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240354","title":{"rendered":"History, heritage and keeping culture alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471913\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/03\/160308-F-SO188-016.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When you bring up his heritage, Staff Sgt. Jojuan Green&#8217;s eyes widen a bit, he talks a little faster and tidbits of history pour from him like water down a stream engorged by Spring rains. It quickly becomes apparent that you have hit his sweet spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love history,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I would get into trouble in school because when they asked me about who founded America I said Christopher Columbus was wrong. It was the Vikings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because of his love for history and his African-American heritage Green, 21st Operations Support Squadron weapons and tactics tactician, and Airman 1st Class Andrew Lewis, 21st Operations Support Squadron space and missile intelligence analyst, organized the African-American History Month Musical Extravaganza held at Peterson Air Force Base.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471913\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471913\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/03\/160308-F-SO188-016.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When you bring up his heritage, Staff Sgt. Jojuan Green&#8217;s eyes widen a bit, he talks a little faster and tidbits of history pour from him like water down a stream engorged by Spring rains. It quickly becomes apparent that you have hit his sweet spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love history,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I would get into trouble in school because when they asked me about who founded America I said Christopher Columbus was wrong. It was the Vikings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Because of his love for history and his African-American heritage Green, 21st Operations Support Squadron weapons and tactics tactician, and Airman 1st Class Andrew Lewis, 21st Operations Support Squadron space and missile intelligence analyst, organized the African-American History Month Musical Extravaganza held at Peterson Air Force Base.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471913\">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-240354","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\/240354","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=240354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240355,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240354\/revisions\/240355"}],"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=240354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}