{"id":10990,"date":"2011-04-28T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10990"},"modified":"2011-04-28T00:54:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T05:54:53","slug":"usafa-professor-killed-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/28\/usafa-professor-killed-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"USAFA Professor Killed in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Colorado Springs Gazette <\/em>reports that a US Air Force Academy professor was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazette.com\/articles\/killed-117058-professor-attack.html\">killed in Afghanistan this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maj. Phil Ambard, a foreign-language professor at the academy, was killed in Kabul, according to his daughter, Air Force 1st Lt. Emily Short.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people may not realize that a wide variety of people deploy to the combat zones from non-traditional fields.\u00a0 The Academy likely has several instructors downrange.<\/p>\n<p>Major Ambard reportedly had more than two decades of service in the Air Force.\u00a0 Remember his family in your prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that a US Air Force Academy professor was killed in Afghanistan this week. Maj. Phil Ambard, a foreign-language professor at the academy, was killed in Kabul, according to his daughter, Air Force 1st Lt. Emily Short. Some people may not realize that a wide variety of people deploy to the combat zones from non-traditional fields.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58,1732,2,1731,65],"class_list":["post-10990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-afghanistan","tag-emily-short","tag-military","tag-phil-ambard","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}