{"id":39323,"date":"2010-07-14T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123213463"},"modified":"2010-07-14T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T17:48:00","slug":"schriever-musician-hits-it-big-with-original-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=39323","title":{"rendered":"Schriever musician hits it big with original song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123213463\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100714-F-0000C-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>When it comes to hobbies, many people just do what they love for fun. Seldom does a hobby actually pay off. For one Schriever staff sergeant, his love of music has paid off in a big way. <\/p>\n<p>Staff Sgt. Richard Justice, the non-commissioned officer in charge of procedures in the 3rd Space Operations Squadron, recently turned his music-making hobby into an award winning profession when he won the &#8220;My Air Force Life&#8221; Original Song Contest. His original song, That&#8217;s Why We Serve, was one of 56 entries in the Air Force-wide online contest. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123213463\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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-39323","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\/39323","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=39323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323\/revisions"}],"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=39323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}