{"id":22997,"date":"2011-04-19T07:16:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T11:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22997"},"modified":"2011-04-19T07:16:04","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T11:16:04","slug":"yes-all-of-this-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22997","title":{"rendered":"Yes, all of this is free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-0419-fake-army-20110419,0,757517.story\">LA Times reports <\/a>that the Army came out yesterday and admitted that the wonderful life that we all led in the Army is free. That&#8217;s right, all of that living in the woods, eating crappy chow, jumping from airplanes, sliding down a muddy slope on a rope&#8230;you earned that adventure;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You cannot buy your way into the U.S. military, Army officials reminded the public Monday, trying to clear up confusion in the Chinese American community after an El Monte man was arrested last week in connection with charging immigrants to join what authorities said was a phony military force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Everything we do is free of charge; that&#8217;s part of our duty, giving back to the community,&#8221; said Manuel A. Perales, sergeant first class at the Army recruiting station in El Monte.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remember that next time you&#8217;re eating an MRE in neck-deep alligator-infested swamp water. Apparently there are people willing to pay for that experience and the Army has to have a press conference to announce that it doesn&#8217;t cost us a thing to live that life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times reports that the Army came out yesterday and admitted that the wonderful life &hellip; <a title=\"Yes, all of this is free\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22997\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, all of this is free<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997","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=22997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}