{"id":21811,"date":"2011-01-11T11:04:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21811"},"modified":"2011-01-11T11:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:04:23","slug":"burnpit-not-a-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21811","title":{"rendered":"Burnpit; &#8220;Not a Veteran&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some guy named Mothax at The Burnpit has a post called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnpit.us\/2011\/01\/arizona-shootings-when-speculation-is-acceptable%E2%80%A6\/\">Arizona Shootings: when speculation is acceptable\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was contentedly playing World of Warcraft when I got an in-game message from Demophilius:<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cHow much are you hoping the shooter isn\u2019t a veteran?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I had no clue what he was talking about since, like the rest of male Americana save Demophilius, I was watching football. So, I went to my designated homepage, Drudgereport, to see what was up. Sure enough, right there in one of the links at top was the words I feared: \u201cMilitary Veteran.\u201d Ah $#!^, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>The link took me to a Washington Post article that indeed stated that law enforcement officials stated (anonymously) that they believed the guy was a veteran. Based on past experience, this made me suspect that he wasn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnpit.us\/2011\/01\/arizona-shootings-when-speculation-is-acceptable%E2%80%A6\/\">Go read the rest.<\/a> Thanks to Mothax for heavily quoting me, as much of the blogosphere has done since Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some guy named Mothax at The Burnpit has a post called Arizona Shootings: when speculation is &hellip; <a title=\"Burnpit; &#8220;Not a Veteran&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21811\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burnpit; &#8220;Not a Veteran&#8221;<\/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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21811","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=21811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}