{"id":44006,"date":"2020-02-17T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/retireenews.org\/?p=44006"},"modified":"2025-01-21T19:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T19:07:32","slug":"check-six-mongos-promotion-8-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/2020\/02\/17\/check-six-mongos-promotion-8-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Six: Mongo&#8217;s promotion &#8211; 8 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/files\/2020\/02\/456382_3739354489776_1263167240_o.jpg?w=497\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44007\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Hawaii Air National Guard photograph<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This photographs show Brig Gen <strong>Braden &#8220;Mongo&#8221; Sakai<\/strong>, his wife Momi and family members shortly after he was pinned by Governor Neil Abercrombie  in the ceremonial room at the Capitol. Also in the photograph is Brig Gen <strong>Joseph Kim<\/strong> and Senator <strong>Michelle Kidani<\/strong>. The senator is Mongo&#8217;s cousin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:10px\"><em>The appearance of external hyperlinks did not constitute endorsement by Retiree News, this included the linked websites, information, products, or services contained therein. Retiree News did not exercise any editorial control over the information you may find at these locations. Additionally, some of the sites linked to may limit the number of stories you can access without a paid subscription. All links were provided with the intent of meeting the mission of Retiree News.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photographs show Brig Gen Braden &#8220;Mongo&#8221; Sakai, his wife Momi and family members shortly after he was pinned by Governor Neil Abercrombie in the ceremonial room at the Capitol. Also in the photograph is Brig Gen Joseph Kim and Senator Michelle Kidani. The senator is Mongo&#8217;s cousin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":44007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"2739,57772,33384,10547,63785,29275","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12394,12386],"tags":[1685,2156,6244,7821,8165,9208],"class_list":["post-44006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2010s","category-check-six","tag-braden-mongo-sakai","tag-check-six","tag-joseph-k-kim","tag-momi-sakai","tag-neil-abercrombie","tag-promotion-ceremony"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84887,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44006\/revisions\/84887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dod.hawaii.gov\/retireenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}