{"id":54527,"date":"2016-05-28T02:01:52","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T02:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_why_this_west_point_graduate_cried_during_his_commencement\/"},"modified":"2016-05-28T02:01:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-28T02:01:52","slug":"la_times_why_this_west_point_graduate_cried_during_his_commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54527","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Why this West Point graduate cried during his commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tears streamed down Alix Idrache&#8217;s face. In the photograph, the streaks reach almost to the high collar of his gray dress uniform.<\/p>\n<p>The moment, captured by a military photographer Saturday during commencement exercises at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., marked the culmination of a journey that began in 2009, when Idrache came to Maryland from his native Haiti, barely able to speak English.<\/p>\n<p>Now 24, he graduated at the top of his class in physics, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army, and is headed to Alabama to train as a helicopter pilot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-west-point-graduation-picture-20160526-snap-story.html\">Read it all<\/a> and absolutely, positively do not miss the picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tears streamed down Alix Idrache&#8217;s face. In the photograph, the streaks reach almost to the high collar of his gray dress uniform. The moment, captured by a military photographer Saturday during commencement exercises at the U.S. Military Academy at<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54527\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,175,206,143,111,168,241,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-caribbean","category-defense-national-security-military","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-haiti","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}