{"id":19749,"date":"2010-07-16T07:14:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T11:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19749"},"modified":"2010-07-16T07:18:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T11:18:49","slug":"we-sneak-one-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19749","title":{"rendered":"We sneak one through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Alex Horton from the excellent blog &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/armyofdude.blogspot.com\/\">Army of Dude<\/a>&#8221; who beat us out for a third place slot in the 2009 Weblog Awards (behind Michael Yon and Blackfive) has won himself a job at the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs as their new media guy. There&#8217;s more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudvillegazette.com\/033808.html\">Mudville Gazette<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alex tells us that his intention is to make the DVA more accesible and responsive to veterans especially those who use the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Horton has been there and done that in Iraq, and then used his blog as a platform to battle the VA over the their inability to efficiently distribute benefits from the new GI Bill. <\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll all join us congratulating Alex and wishing him the best. If anyone can drag the VA into the 21st century it&#8217;s Alex Horton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Alex Horton from the excellent blog &#8220;Army of Dude&#8221; who beat us out for &hellip; <a title=\"We sneak one through\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19749\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We sneak one through<\/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":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers-and-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19749","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=19749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}