{"id":6676,"date":"2010-08-03T00:35:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T06:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2010-08-02T22:26:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T04:26:26","slug":"airman-how-i-learned-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/03\/airman-how-i-learned-to-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Airman: How I Learned to Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Force Senior Airman, Emerald Ralston, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123215368\">writes a moving commentary<\/a> that begins with her deployment to Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After a couple of weeks, I was preparing to convoy to an even more remote area for the next five months.<\/p>\n<p>Before we left, I made the usual call home. I&#8217;d ask my parents to pray for me before I went on convoys so they knew what I was up to and, God forbid, in case anything happened, they would be prepared.<\/p>\n<p>This particular time, I didn&#8217;t get the &#8220;Okay, Honey, be safe,&#8221; I was used to.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She learns that her brother, US Army Sgt Ian Ralston, had been wounded in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123215368\">Her story<\/a> is worth the read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Force Senior Airman, Emerald Ralston, writes a moving commentary that begins with her deployment to Afghanistan. After a couple of weeks, I was preparing to convoy to an even more remote area for the next five months. Before we left, I made the usual call home. I&#8217;d ask my parents to pray for me before I went on [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58,862,863,52,2,11],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-emerald-ralston","tag-ian-ralston","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","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=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}