{"id":11420,"date":"2019-05-30T13:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/?p=11420"},"modified":"2019-05-30T13:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T18:14:34","slug":"returning-home-inspire-kids-become-aviators-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2019\/05\/30\/returning-home-inspire-kids-become-aviators-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning home to inspire kids to become aviators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/2018\/06\/18\/love-air-capt-philipe-abs-da-cruz-mathias-hoffmeister\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we highlighted<\/a>\u00a0Envoy Capt.\u00a0<strong>Philipe Abs Da Cruz<\/strong>\u00a0and American Airlines Flight Attendant\u00a0<strong>Mathias Hoffmeister<\/strong>\u00a0and their special journey from Brazil to the United States, and from Envoy to American Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the happy couple returned to Philipe\u2019s high school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida to inspire kids to get involved in aviation. \u201cOne of my teachers almost cried when she saw me, because it was her dream to become an airline pilot,\u201d said Capt. Abs Da Cruz. \u201cShe was born in Romania and the government at the time didn\u2019t allow women to fly. Mathias was a great help and at the table next to us was an Ameriflight recruiter who graduated high school with me and her husband, who is a pilot for Reva air ambulance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Way to get kids inspired in aviation, guys!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_FLT_Philpe_Abs_Da_Cruz_Career_Day_May_2019-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMG_FLT_Philpe_Abs_Da_Cruz_Career_Day_May_2019-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_FLT_Philpe_Abs_Da_Cruz_Career_Day_May_2019 (1)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year,\u00a0we highlighted\u00a0Envoy Capt.\u00a0Philipe Abs Da Cruz\u00a0and American Airlines Flight Attendant\u00a0Mathias Hoffmeister\u00a0and their special journey from Brazil to the United States, and from Envoy to American Airlines. Recently, the happy couple returned to Philipe\u2019s high school near Fort Lauderdale, Florida to inspire kids to get involved in aviation. \u201cOne of my teachers almost cried when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":42029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.envoyair.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}