{"id":14430,"date":"2009-09-16T17:39:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T22:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14430"},"modified":"2009-09-16T17:39:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T22:39:58","slug":"funeral-pact-kept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14430","title":{"rendered":"Funeral pact kept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you guys send me links that I just don&#8217;t know how to handle. This one comes from VTWoody and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,27574,26081206-401,00.html\">our allies, the Australians<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/0694161300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14431 aligncenter\" title=\"0694161300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/0694161300.jpg\" alt=\"0694161300\" width=\"316\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/0694161300.jpg 316w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/0694161300-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before one of them was sent to fight in Afghanistan for the British Army, they made a deal: If one of them died, the other had to wear a dress to the funeral.<\/p>\n<p>So when Barry Delaney turned up to the graveside funeral of best friend Private Kevin Elliott, he did so wearing a tight fluorescent dress, The Times reports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Delaney wept on his knees during the Scottish service for Private Elliott, who was killed while on foot patrol last month. He was aged 24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you guys send me links that I just don&#8217;t know how to handle. This one &hellip; <a title=\"Funeral pact kept\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14430\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Funeral pact kept<\/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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430","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=14430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}