{"id":7154,"date":"2009-12-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123183405"},"modified":"2009-12-23T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T19:00:00","slug":"students-play-santa-for-vandenberg-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=7154","title":{"rendered":"Students play Santa for Vandenberg child"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123183405\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/091218-F-4667S-025.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It was a day just like any other as mom Stephanie Lubas took her daughter to the doctor&#8217;s office for the abnormal pains she was feeling. Makaila was experiencing joint pain in both her legs and shoulders, at times refusing to walk because of the pain. Expecting a diagnosis of childhood arthritis, Mrs. Lubas was shocked when the doctor started to read 5-year-old Makaila&#8217;s labs. As a pediatric nurse, she knew immediately the tests had revealed her daughter had leukemia.<\/p>\n<p>Upon learning of her daughter&#8217;s diagnosis, chronic myeloid leukemia, Mrs. Lubas had no choice but to pull her daughter from school in an effort to keep her weakened immune system germ-free. When she called Crestview Elementary, her daughter&#8217;s school, she spoke to Principal Ken Faulk to let him know of Makaila&#8217;s illness. After hearing, he graciously asked if the school could start a fundraiser in her honor. Mrs. Lubas agreed.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123183405\">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-7154","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\/7154","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=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8056,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions\/8056"}],"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=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}