{"id":75881,"date":"2011-02-02T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123240881"},"modified":"2011-02-02T14:12:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T18:12:21","slug":"commentary-buffalo-soldier-in-the-heart-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=75881","title":{"rendered":"Commentary:  Buffalo Soldier in the heart of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123240881\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/090227-F-0111Z-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Recently, my wife and I were walking through Manitou Springs when we overheard Bob Marley&#8217;s classic &#8220;Buffalo Soldier&#8221; coming from the speakers in a nearby park. <\/p>\n<p>I reflected back to the first time I heard the song live at a concert in Tacoma, Wash., where he and &#8220;The Wailers&#8221; performed. As we got closer to the park we could see many were familiar with the artist&#8217;s lyrics and were singing along. A portion of the song goes like this, &#8220;He was a buffalo soldier, dreadlock Rasta, he was a buffalo soldier fighting for America, fighting a rival, fighting for survival.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123240881\">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-75881","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\/75881","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=75881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75881\/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=75881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}