{"id":62374,"date":"2010-11-08T13:52:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T17:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123229970"},"modified":"2010-11-08T13:52:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T17:52:01","slug":"november-marks-native-american-alaskan-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=62374","title":{"rendered":"November marks Native American, Alaskan Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123229970\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/AFG-101101-003.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>During World War II, Wind Talkers, or Navajo Code Talkers, were credited with providing communications security. They spoke the Navajo language, which is a difficult language without an alphabet, making it nearly impossible for someone raised outside of a Navajo community to learn. The Japanese, who had great success breaking other military codes, could not learn the language and translate the messages.<\/p>\n<p>November is Native American and Alaskan Heritage Month, and during the month, Peterson AFB is highlighting Native American contributions, including the code talkers.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123229970\">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-62374","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\/62374","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=62374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62374\/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=62374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}