{"id":1527,"date":"2007-10-30T11:30:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-30T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2007-11-18T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T15:32:38","slug":"support-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Support The Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cindy points us to the latest incarnation of Project Valor IT<\/a> – a “Soldiers Angels” production. The goal is to raise money to provide assistive technology to wounded servicepeople.
\nThe fundraiser brings a bit of friendly inter-service rivalry to the table; although all the money raised goes into the same pot, and all goes to support deployed troops and their families.<\/p>\n

Me? Well, I’m from North Dakota. We are a maritime people in NoDak; the salt water is in our veins. And many is the North Dakotan, stranded on the drift prairie in mid-blizzard, who’s looked in relief to see a Coast Guard chopper flaring out to pull them to safety, or a Navy Snow-Cat hoving across the drifts with food, fuel and water, the skipper on the bridge barking orders down the voice-tubes to the helmsman.<\/p>\n

Also, my twin uncle was a submariner. And the Navy is behind.<\/p>\n

So here’s a link to the “Navy” donation page<\/a> (and a list <\/a>of the Navy team)
\nAnchors aweigh, and let’s turn it out for the skimmers, bubbleheads, flyboys and coasties!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The code screws up Firefox. I’m going to put the counter code in a separate Valour-IT page<\/a> (on my right menu, or here), and provide a link to the “Navy” page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cindy points us to the latest incarnation of Project Valor IT – a “Soldiers Angels” production. The goal is to raise money to provide assistive technology to wounded servicepeople. The fundraiser brings a bit of friendly inter-service rivalry to the table; although all the money raised goes into the same pot, and all goes to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}