{"id":1656,"date":"2007-11-20T04:39:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T09:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2007-11-20T04:39:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T09:39:44","slug":"sign-of-profound-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1656","title":{"rendered":"Sign of Profound Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embedded in one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/wp\/the-old-new-way.htm\">Michael Yon&#8217;s Dispatches from a few weeks ago<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/media\/images\/fps\/oldnew\/Photo-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelyon-online.com\/media\/images\/fps\/oldnew\/Photo-5.jpg\" border=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A ping-pong fad is sweeping through Fallujah.[<font color=\"#666699\">Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Stephen M. DeBoard]<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a truly wonderful sign.\u00a0 No people that genuinely appreciate Table Tennis &#8211; the king of sports &#8211; can stay in the wilderness for <em>too<\/em> long.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the post, if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embedded in one of Michael Yon&#8217;s Dispatches from a few weeks ago, A ping-pong fad is sweeping through Fallujah.[Official U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Stephen M. DeBoard] This is a truly wonderful sign.\u00a0 No people that genuinely appreciate Table Tennis &#8211; the king of sports &#8211; can stay in the wilderness for too long. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}