{"id":12209,"date":"2009-07-04T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T12:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12209"},"modified":"2009-07-04T08:02:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T13:02:10","slug":"independence-day-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12209","title":{"rendered":"Independence Day News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Independence Day message from the Republican National Committee;<br \/>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"333\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lyh3NmbbsVU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lyh3NmbbsVU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=63578\">Stars and Stripes<\/a> reports on a celebration at FOB Echo in Iraq sponsored by the State Department;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/63578_73154029.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12210 aligncenter\" title=\"63578_73154029\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/63578_73154029-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"63578_73154029\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/63578_73154029-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/63578_73154029.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Task Force 1-2 commander Lt. Col. Steve Miska told the Iraqis that American culture is very informal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we come together we don\u2019t have a seating arrangement or people who come to wait on us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe thought today we would teach you a little bit about that. When you get your food you serve yourself and you can sit anywhere and talk to whoever you want.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Joe Biden began his 4th of July in Iraq by welcoming 200 new citizens at a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090704\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_iraq_155\">naturalization ceremony at Camp Victory<\/a> in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,529962,00.html\">crown of the Statue of Liberty opens today<\/a> for the first time since September 11, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/07\/04\/AR2009070400061.html?wprss=rss_world\/asia\">North Korea celebrates the 4th <\/a>by firing off seven (SCUD?) missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Independence Day message from the Republican National Committee; The Stars and Stripes reports on a &hellip; <a title=\"Independence Day News\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12209\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Independence Day News<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}