{"id":49077,"date":"2014-11-11T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49077"},"modified":"2014-11-11T19:31:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T01:31:12","slug":"veterans-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49077","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never quite know what to say to veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Hear me out, here.<\/p>\n<p>Saying &#8220;thank you for your service&#8221; seems trite &#8211; almost mawkish. \u00a0 Someone who never served saying &#8220;Thanks for going overseas and getting shot at!&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-lrVkkYtKjoI\/TgXbre0UgTI\/AAAAAAAAATA\/6XrZsgU_rHc\/s1600\/recruiting-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See what I mean?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com\/236x\/94\/3f\/27\/943f27c1ea3dec050b8f2b1bd0b41d75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"295\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, what I\u00a0want\u00a0to say is &#8220;glad you made it home&#8221;. \u00a0But I can see that being taken the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rare-posters.com\/5475.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/www.rare-posters.com\/5475.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ll wing it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uscg.mil\/HR\/Reservist\/issues\/2002\/03\/2002_03_RecruitingPosters.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Veterans: \u00a0thanks for spending the best years of your lives in barracks, troops ships, foxholes, berthing spaces, CVC helmets, cockpits and gun mounts, doing things most of us can&#8217;t imagine, to protect the freedoms too many Americans take very much for granted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dbmdesigns.net\/READY___PHOTO_SHOP_CHANGES_01-16-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"644\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t roll off the tongue, but it doesn&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never quite know what to say to veterans. Hear me out, here. Saying &#8220;thank you for your service&#8221; seems trite &#8211; almost mawkish. \u00a0 Someone who never served saying &#8220;Thanks for going overseas and getting shot at!&#8221;? See what I mean? In the meantime, what I\u00a0want\u00a0to say is &#8220;glad you made it home&#8221;. \u00a0But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49077","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=49077"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49082,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49077\/revisions\/49082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}