{"id":2553,"date":"2025-10-14T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2553\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:36:13","slug":"beautiful-moment-military-dad-surprises-son-before-el-paso-football-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2553\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful moment: Military dad surprises son before El Paso football game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (<a href=\"http:\/\/ktsm.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTSM<\/a>) \u2014 A beautiful moment: Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert Sanchez surprised his son, Xavier Ramirez, a safety on the Pebble Hills High School football team, with a reunion before Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>The heartwarming reunion took place before the Pebble Hills vs. Montwood football game that started at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 10, at the SAC II.<\/p>\n<p>KTSM crews captured the moment when Sanchez was reunited with his son, as shown below.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez has been on a nine-month rotation with the United States European Command in Germany, according to the Socorro Independent School District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) \u2014 A beautiful moment: Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert Sanchez surprised his son, Xavier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3145,138,140,139,498,499,500,2672,3146,3147,3148,3149],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-army-sgt-1st-class-robert-sanchez","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-ktsm","tag-ktsm-9-news","tag-ktsm-news","tag-military","tag-military-dad","tag-montwood-high-school","tag-pebble-hills-high-school","tag-reunion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}