{"id":12070,"date":"2011-12-23T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T14:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12070"},"modified":"2011-12-23T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T14:56:49","slug":"marine-asks-michelle-obama-to-marine-corps-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12070","title":{"rendered":"Marine Asks Michelle Obama To Marine Corps Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A United States marine wasn&#8217;t shy in asking the First Lady of the United States out on a date.<\/p>\n<p>During a Christmas giveaway to children in need, Marine Lance <strong>Cpl. Aaron Leeks<\/strong> was standing near the Matchbox cars when <strong>Michelle Obama<\/strong> moved right next to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said, \u2018yes.\u2019 She\u2019d love to go with me,\u201d said <strong>Leeks<\/strong>, who is now awaiting White House confirmation that the president\u2019s wife, indeed, will be his date for the Marine Corps Ball in Nov. 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason she\u2019s checking with her husband is to make sure that week is clear,\u201d said <strong>Leeks<\/strong>, whose fianc\u00e9e, another marine, is stationed in Okinawa, Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Within the next 45 days, he heads for Afghanistan where he\u2019ll be assigned to mortuary affairs, the unit he checked off as his first preference when he enlisted in March 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United States marine wasn&#8217;t shy in asking the First Lady of the United States out on a date. During a Christmas giveaway to children in need, Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron Leeks was standing near the Matchbox cars when Michelle Obama moved right next to him. \u201cShe said, \u2018yes.\u2019 She\u2019d love to go with me,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}