{"id":12976,"date":"2009-07-25T17:39:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T22:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12976"},"modified":"2009-07-25T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T22:39:39","slug":"40-year-old-c-rat-pound-cake-still-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12976","title":{"rendered":"40-year-old C-rat pound cake still &#8220;good&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/col-moak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12977 aligncenter\" title=\"col-moak\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/col-moak.jpg\" alt=\"col-moak\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/col-moak.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/col-moak-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I watched a short clip on Fox News last night that made my mouth water a little. It was about Colonel Henry A. Moak, Jr. who retired from the Army yesterday. According to the story, while he was a helicopter pilot, someone gave him a C-ration pound cake that he vowed to eat when he retired.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who doesn&#8217;t know, the pound cake was the most prized item out of all of the C-rations&#8217; delights. Second was a can of peaches. If you had them both at the same time, you knew you were in for a real treat when you mixed them later on &#8211; out of sight of the rest of your squad, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Col. Moak cracked open the can of heavenly sweetness in the Pentagon&#8217;s Hall of Heroes after his retirement ceremony and pronounced it &#8220;good&#8221;. I&#8217;ll bet it was.<\/p>\n<p>But what do I know &#8211; I look forward to my Saturday morning SOS breakfast at the messhall &#8211; and lament that the eggs aren&#8217;t dehydrated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a short clip on Fox News last night that made my mouth water a &hellip; <a title=\"40-year-old C-rat pound cake still &#8220;good&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12976\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">40-year-old C-rat pound cake still &#8220;good&#8221;<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976","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=12976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}