{"id":469,"date":"2012-04-02T19:48:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprilmichele.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2012-04-02T19:48:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:48:21","slug":"on-his-way-home-for-real-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/2012\/04\/02\/on-his-way-home-for-real-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"On His Way Home &#8211; For Real This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army told my cousin in Afghanistan to pack his gear and report to the air field in 4 hours. Of course, he was already mostly packed &#8211; he thought he was leaving for home several days ago. Then they told him he can&#8217;t leave that quickly. Then they told him the day AFTER he was supposed to leave that he can leave. The Army works in mysterious ways.<\/p>\n<p>So, he and 8 other men were put on an airplane and delivered to a staging area away from the war zone. This place has real restaurants with real food and ice cold beers. He and a couple of his friends spent the first night there eating and drinking beer for the first time in many months. He posted a photo on Facebook so we knew he was really out of there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aprilmichele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/541202_10150673442319821_529909820_9657214_1678358288_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-470 aligncenter\" title=\"541202_10150673442319821_529909820_9657214_1678358288_n\" src=\"http:\/\/aprilmichele.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/541202_10150673442319821_529909820_9657214_1678358288_n-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"outta there\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so glad that they made it out of there safely and can&#8217;t wait for them to be back on American soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army told my cousin in Afghanistan to pack his gear and report to the air field in 4 hours. Of course, he was already mostly packed &#8211; he thought he was leaving for home several days ago. Then they told him he can&#8217;t leave that quickly. Then they told him the day AFTER he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/2012\/04\/02\/on-his-way-home-for-real-this-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On His Way Home &#8211; For Real This Time&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,20],"tags":[69,78,127],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyfriends","category-life","category-travelvacation","tag-facebook","tag-friends","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/aprilmichaels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}