{"id":520,"date":"2009-02-09T00:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2009-02-09T00:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T00:46:00","slug":"homecoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/homecoming\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went out to the airforce base to greet my brother-in-law (my wife&#8217;s sister&#8217;s husband) who has returned from Kuwait after just over a year.<\/p>\n<p>It was really quite a spectacle; an enormous hangar with a parade row of flags, a band blaring &#8220;Sweet Home Alabama&#8221;, firetrucks spewing gouts of water in long arcs over a slowly approaching plane, and then of course the real waterworks as fathers are united with wives and children.<\/p>\n<p>We went to their home for a small lunch. The street was lined with flags all the way up to his front door. Talk about a hero&#8217;s welcome!<\/p>\n<p>I have a great deal of respect for my brother-in-law. He&#8217;s such a true person, a man of high integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we went out to the airforce base to greet my brother-in-law (my wife&#8217;s sister&#8217;s husband) who has returned from Kuwait after just over a year. It was really quite a spectacle; an enormous hangar with a parade row of flags, a band blaring &#8220;Sweet Home Alabama&#8221;, firetrucks spewing gouts of water in long arcs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bluetablepainting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}