{"id":17608,"date":"2010-02-22T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17608"},"modified":"2010-02-22T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T14:00:46","slug":"tah-in-tat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17608","title":{"rendered":"TAH in TAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the link for the General Ballduster McSoulpatch at <a href=\"http:\/\/militarytimes.com\/news\/2010\/02\/army_stolenvalor_022210w\/\">The Army Times<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Schantag learned of McManus when a friend\u2019s brother sent her photos he took of McManus at the Dec. 12 inauguration for Houston Mayor Annise Parker.<\/p>\n<p>Schantag posted photos of the man to the P.O.W. Network site and sent them to This Ain\u2019t Hell, where the photo was posted at the center of a mock \u201cwanted\u201d poster.<\/p>\n<p>Seavey\u2019s day job is new media manager for the American Legion, but he blogs about stolen-valor cases and other military topics in his spare time for This Ain\u2019t Hell.<\/p>\n<p>For Seavey, whose blog dubbed McManus \u201cGen. Ballduster McSoulpatch,\u201d the first big break was an anonymous tip saying the man\u2019s name is Michael P. McManus. From there, readers pointed Seavey toward references to McManus across the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m proud of the way the story turned out &#8211; there will never be another like this one, though. It was a one in a million shot. I&#8217;d like thank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pownetwork.org\/\">Mary Schantag at POW Net<\/a> for including us in her hunt. She&#8217;s sent me another couple phonies that I&#8217;ll roll out in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the link for the General Ballduster McSoulpatch at The Army Times. Schantag learned of McManus &hellip; <a title=\"TAH in TAT\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17608\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TAH in TAT<\/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":[6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17608","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=17608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}