{"id":39286,"date":"2016-12-15T00:20:42","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T03:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39286"},"modified":"2016-12-15T02:02:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:02:58","slug":"air-force-captain-carson-bird-grace-and-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/air-force-captain-carson-bird-grace-and-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Captain Carson Bird: Grace and Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39287\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/carsonbird.jpg\" alt=\"carsonbird\" width=\"239\" height=\"222\" \/>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usafa.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/1487\/Article\/1027533\/carson-bird-lived-life-of-grace-humor-and-love-says-family-at-memorial.aspx\">memorial was held<\/a> at the US Air Force Academy last week for retired USAF Capt Carson Bird, who died November 26th from bone cancer. He was 31.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/carson-bird-107a9646\">Bird<\/a>, a 2008 USAFA graduate, was a special operations officer and <!--more-->recipient of the Bronze Star. He was also a former Falcons football cornerback. His former teammate, Chad Hall, said<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hall said Carson\u2019s Christian faith overpowered his fear of dying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe knew where he was going to go,\u201d Hall said. \u201cHe never gave up, even when he knew there was nothing else the doctors could do.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read some of Carson Bird&#8217;s first-person, personal story <a href=\"https:\/\/cgbblog.net\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A memorial was held at the US Air Force Academy last week for retired USAF Capt Carson Bird, who died November 26th from bone cancer. He was 31. Bird, a 2008 USAFA graduate, was a special operations officer and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[5996,1090,96,956,2,65],"class_list":["post-39286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-living","tag-carson-bird","tag-chad-hall","tag-christian","tag-football","tag-military","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39286","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=39286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}