{"id":201651,"date":"2025-06-21T04:37:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T04:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201651\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T04:37:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T04:37:14","slug":"jesse-howard-honored-for-military-service-by-chicago-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/201651\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Howard honored for military service by Chicago Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW LONDON, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211; Honoring the military at a baseball game is a time-honored tradition, and one local man got to experience an arena of applause in his honor Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Army First Sergeant Jesse Howard, from New London, got a military salute on the big screen at the Chicago Cubs game. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Howard attended the game with his wife and two kids.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/QHPMICZKORDY5PSXIKRFCILPR4.jpeg\" width=\"980\" height=\"703\" \/>Howard attended the game with his wife and two kids.(KWQC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Howard served in the Philippines, the Middle East and participated in recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He attended the game with his wife and two kids. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KWQC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW LONDON, Ill. (KWQC) &#8211; Honoring the military at a baseball game is a time-honored tradition, and one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[81407,748,393,81408,81409,4884,81411,2305,81410,257,334,19959,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-201651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-army-first-sergeant-jesse-howard","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-from-new-london","12":"tag-got-a-military-salute-on-the-big-screen-at-the-chicago-cubs-game","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-henry-county","15":"tag-illinois","16":"tag-jesse-howard","17":"tag-london","18":"tag-military-service","19":"tag-new-london","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114719506411772340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}