{"id":43672,"date":"2014-05-08T19:07:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T00:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43672"},"modified":"2014-05-08T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T00:08:12","slug":"43672","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43672","title":{"rendered":"An Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was ten years ago today that a roadside bomb in Anbar province killed two soldiers from the North Dakota Army National Guard&#8217;s 141st Engineer Battalion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-frc3\/t1.0-9\/1485120_10152150442422428_175308923539661978_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"672\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of them, Specialist Brown, was the nephew of two of my high school classmates and of my seventh-grade history teacher. I remember him as a little kid, back in North Dakota in the eighties. His grandfather, as I recall, is a friend of my father&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Different people get different things out of remembering. \u00a0If nothing else, I hope it prompts you to send a prayer to the Brown and Holmes families, and all the families who&#8217;ve lost loved ones in this past decade and a half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was ten years ago today that a roadside bomb in Anbar province killed two soldiers from the North Dakota Army National Guard&#8217;s 141st Engineer Battalion. One of them, Specialist Brown, was the nephew of two of my high school classmates and of my seventh-grade history teacher. I remember him as a little kid, back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,19,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-five-ate-for-oh-won","category-memoriam","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43672","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=43672"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43681,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43672\/revisions\/43681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}