{"id":17426,"date":"2010-02-13T11:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17426"},"modified":"2010-02-13T11:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T16:45:49","slug":"courtney-cook-gives-instructions-on-how-to-be-an-ass-high-blood-pressure-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17426","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Cook Gives Instructions on How To Be An Ass (High Blood Pressure Warning)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Uber Pig at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\">Blackfive<\/a>, I give you Courtney Cook\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/mwt\/feature\/2010\/01\/31\/how_to_leave_a_soldier\/index.html\">on how to leave a soldier while he is deployed overseas<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You&#8217;d be surprised how easy it is to leave a soldier on deployment. You can do it with a letter. (He can&#8217;t argue with you. He doesn&#8217;t have a phone.) If you lay the groundwork early, saying to the soldier before he leaves, &#8220;This will be the end of us, we might as well admit it,&#8221; it&#8217;s that much easier. The letter won&#8217;t even come as a shock.<\/p>\n<p>And if you have children with that soldier? You can handle all that with a letter, too. He&#8217;ll write it &#8212; because he cares about the kids, because he wants to work with you to do what&#8217;s best for them even though you&#8217;re leaving him &#8212; and you&#8217;ll give it to them. Here again, you will avoid a nasty confrontation. Who will they cry to? You? You&#8217;re just the teary-eyed bearer of the letter. Him? The one who&#8217;s sweating it out in the desert?<\/p>\n<p>There will be no moving truck, no boxes, no house torn asunder. The soldier is peeing in a bucket as you pack. He doesn&#8217;t care who gets the couch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who did she leave her husband for you ask&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am married to a lithe, blue-eyed Marxist whose dissertation was on U.S. imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a man who participated in war protests in Santa Cruz, Calif., during the winter I lived at Fort Knox.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole article and the comments some of the people at Salon have made. Here is a choice one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Volunteer soldiers enable voluntary wars. Why do we continue to cheer them as they get off the plane?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Uber Pig at Blackfive, I give you Courtney Cook\u00a0 on how to leave a &hellip; <a title=\"Courtney Cook Gives Instructions on How To Be An Ass (High Blood Pressure Warning)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17426\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Courtney Cook Gives Instructions on How To Be An Ass (High Blood Pressure Warning)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17426","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\/607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}