{"id":59853,"date":"2017-05-12T17:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T21:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59853"},"modified":"2017-05-12T18:47:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T22:47:05","slug":"nyt-front-page-when-the-wife-of-a-soldier-hears-a-knock-at-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59853","title":{"rendered":"NYT Front Page&#8211;When the Wife of a Soldier Hears a Knock at the Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing could have prepared her for April 8, a Saturday, when she returned from a soccer practice and heard a knock at their home at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. De Alencar was upstairs. Her daughter Tatiyana, 13, shouted that two uniformed men were at the door, \u201clike in the movies, when they knock on the door when something bad has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. De Alencar knew why the soldiers had come. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get down the steps. My body just froze,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<p>When she was told that Mark was dead, she said haltingly, \u201cit was the worst feeling in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/11\/us\/a-soldier-who-wont-be-forgotten-even-if-the-war-is.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing could have prepared her for April 8, a Saturday, when she returned from a soccer practice and heard a knock at their home at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. Mrs. De Alencar was upstairs. Her daughter Tatiyana, 13,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59853\">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":[209,101,438,98,106,148,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-marriage-family","category-military-armed-forces","category-terrorism","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59853","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=59853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59855,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59853\/revisions\/59855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}