{"id":87139,"date":"2024-03-08T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87139"},"modified":"2024-03-08T07:16:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T13:16:06","slug":"an-american-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87139","title":{"rendered":"An American Hero"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For like the 21st year in a row, I didn&#8217;t watch the State of the Union.   I&#8217;ve joined the crowd that considers it a useless exercise at best, a nod to monarchy or worse at worst.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I almost wish I had tuned in, for this alone:<\/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\/robbystarbuck\/status\/1765958464918929794\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Thirteen Marines&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Including his son, LCPL Kareem Nikoui, whom I&#8217;ll bring out from under the rug under which he and his comrades were swept:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87140\" style=\"width:259px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3.png 474w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/image-3-293x300.png 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I salute you, Steve Nikoui, wherever you are.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For like the 21st year in a row, I didn&#8217;t watch the State of the Union. I&#8217;ve joined the crowd that considers it a useless exercise at best, a nod to monarchy or worse at worst. But I almost wish I had tuned in, for this alone: &#8220;Thirteen Marines&#8221; Including his son, LCPL Kareem Nikoui, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,131,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-second-civil-war","category-war-and-peace","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87139","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=87139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87141,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87139\/revisions\/87141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}