{"id":72602,"date":"2011-01-12T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123237970"},"modified":"2011-01-12T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:10:00","slug":"commentary-why-i-wear-the-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=72602","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Why I wear the uniform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a great honor to wear the United States Air Force uniform. There are not many people who can say they&#8217;ve done or do what I do. There are also not many people who are given the opportunity to overcome the obstacles needed to wear the uniform. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an honor to wear this uniform and represent something greater than myself, and to know that I am dedicating my life to protect and defend life itself. <\/p>\n<p>This uniform demands respect. It provides a feeling of deep admiration for service members of their abilities, qualities, and achievements. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123237970\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a great honor to wear the United States Air Force uniform. There are not many people who can say they&#8217;ve done or do what I do. There are also not many people who are given the opportunity to overcome the obstacles needed to wear the uniform. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/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-72602","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\/72602","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=72602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72619,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72602\/revisions\/72619"}],"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=72602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}