{"id":171697,"date":"2025-07-18T13:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T17:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=171697"},"modified":"2025-07-18T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T15:58:17","slug":"weekend-open-thread-557","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=171697","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donald-Trump-federal-worker-firing-workers-r-fednews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-171698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donald-Trump-federal-worker-firing-workers-r-fednews-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donald-Trump-federal-worker-firing-workers-r-fednews-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donald-Trump-federal-worker-firing-workers-r-fednews-398x333.jpg 398w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donald-Trump-federal-worker-firing-workers-r-fednews-768x642.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Donald-Trump-federal-worker-firing-workers-r-fednews.jpg 981w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This image captures one of the reasons conservatives are cheering the release of many federal employees. The Reddit user lamented how the agency went about discharging federal employees. The Redditor followed up by describing this event as a dark day for the foreign service and for the United States. However, taking a trip down memory lane shows us an example of what taxpayers were paying this individual to do. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Enjoy your weekend!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image captures one of the reasons conservatives are cheering the release of many federal employees. &hellip; <a title=\"Weekend Open Thread\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=171697\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend Open Thread<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171697","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}