{"id":27071,"date":"2012-03-27T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27071"},"modified":"2012-03-26T13:48:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T18:48:40","slug":"more-of-these-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27071","title":{"rendered":"More Of These, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, I intereviewed Staff Sergeant David Bellavia.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, he&#8217;d just published his book, <em>House to House<\/em>, which was one of the very best books about tip-of&#8211;the-knife infantry combat I&#8217;ve ever read. \u00a0Up there with\u00a0<em>Band of Brothers <\/em>or <em>The Forgotten Soldier<\/em>. It is that good. \u00a0If you haven&#8217;t read it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CDMQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHouse-David-Bellavia%2Fdp%2F1416574719&amp;ei=HrlwT9HWBcHK2AXz6ODxAQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNEg5D7JiV1cP5MzYpACTZoszmz52Q&amp;sig2=PQTbf_Asju3oUQG8kWL8Xw\">you need to<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m utterly thrilled to see that SSG Bellavia is <a href=\"http:\/\/bellaviaforcongress.com\/\">running for Congress<\/a>\u00a0in the NY27, the greater Batavia area.<\/p>\n<p>He also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/DavidBellavia\">has a Twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an upstate NY reader, or have a few bucks to spare whereever you are, New York could do an awful lot worse &#8211; and usually does &#8211; than send Mr. Bellavia to Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, I intereviewed Staff Sergeant David Bellavia. At that time, he&#8217;d just published his book, House to House, which was one of the very best books about tip-of&#8211;the-knife infantry combat I&#8217;ve ever read. \u00a0Up there with\u00a0Band of Brothers or The Forgotten Soldier. It is that good. \u00a0If you haven&#8217;t read it, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071","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=27071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27073,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27071\/revisions\/27073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}