{"id":1363,"date":"2023-09-17T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T19:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2023-09-17T16:02:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T20:02:15","slug":"going-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/2023\/09\/17\/going-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/plane.jpg\" alt=\"Burning WW2 Plane\" class=\"wp-image-1364\" style=\"width:269px;height:269px\" width=\"269\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/plane.jpg 526w, https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/plane-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/plane-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/plane-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/plane-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/plane-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>His controls were dead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His heading set. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pulled the picture out of his pocket, the blood leaking from his flight jacket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His hand shook with the weight of the world. Looking lovingly at his wife and children smiling back at him, he felt a sadness pierce his slowing heart. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tears flooded his eyes, but it wouldn&#8217;t matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The window was already filled with the smear of oil from the engine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He sobbed, knowing this was the end&#8230;. a heavenly light took over his cockpit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He felt an embrace that only his subconscious remembered&#8230; he glanced at the picture one last time&#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he knew it would be alright. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He knew he was going home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; My early morning thoughts on 9\/16\/2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His controls were dead. His heading set. He pulled the picture out of his pocket, the blood leaking from his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-story"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/plane.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afterhavoc.foxgear.net\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}