{"id":82299,"date":"2022-05-30T08:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82299"},"modified":"2022-05-30T08:42:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T13:42:17","slug":"memorial-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82299","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ll be out doing Memorial Day activities today &#8211; honoring those who died for this country &#8211; and by extension, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28919\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"28919\">those<\/a> who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30363\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30363\">didn&#8217;t<\/a> &#8211; as well as some of the regular &#8220;beginning of summer&#8221; stuff for which today is mostly synonymous these days.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But lest anyone forget &#8211; or just need a new reminder &#8211; I found this thread, by a former USMC public relations officer, alternately funny and deeply affecting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JennsLenz\/status\/1530904654627889153\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Back to regular blogging  &#8211; i.e., trying to make this a country and civilization worthy of all that sacrifice &#8211; tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be out doing Memorial Day activities today &#8211; honoring those who died for this country &#8211; and by extension, those who didn&#8217;t &#8211; as well as some of the regular &#8220;beginning of summer&#8221; stuff for which today is mostly synonymous these days. But lest anyone forget &#8211; or just need a new reminder &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82299","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=82299"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82302,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82299\/revisions\/82302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}