{"id":377024,"date":"2017-09-15T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1319578\/gold-star-mothers-day-cherishing-memories\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:52:00","slug":"gold-star-mothers-day-cherishing-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=377024","title":{"rendered":"Gold Star Mothers Day: cherishing memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 18, 2009, Patricia O\u2019Kane-Trombley was standing in her kitchen when there was a knock at the door. As she walked the six paces to the front door, she noticed two men in Air Force uniforms; one of them was wearing a cross, indicating he was a chaplain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh no, not this,\u201d she thought as her stomach sank.<\/p>\n<p>Her son, Capt. Thomas Gramith, an F-15E Strike Eagle pilot stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, was currently serving in Afghanistan.<br \/> <br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2017\/Sep\/15\/2001810788\/82\/55\/0\/170913-F-DE377-001.JPG' \/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 18, 2009, Patricia O&rsquo;Kane-Trombley was standing in her kitchen when there was a knock at the door. As she walked the six paces to the front door, she noticed two men in Air Force uniforms; one of them was wearing a cross, indicating he was a chaplain.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh no, not this,&rdquo; she thought as her stomach sank.<\/p>\n<p>Her son, Capt. Thomas Gramith, an F-15E Strike Eagle pilot stationed at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, was currently serving in Afghanistan.<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2017\/Sep\/15\/2001810788\/82\/55\/0\/170913-F-DE377-001.JPG\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377024","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\/377024","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\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377025,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377024\/revisions\/377025"}],"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=377024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}