{"id":23582,"date":"2011-05-25T14:17:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T18:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23582"},"modified":"2011-05-25T17:41:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T21:41:14","slug":"wth-does-that-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23582","title":{"rendered":"WTH does that say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IAVA-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23583 aligncenter\" title=\"IAVA logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IAVA-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"58\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;m showing my age, but what the hell is that? Actually, it&#8217;s the new brand for Paul Reickhoff&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/iava.org\/iavas-2011-brand-launch-why\">Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new brand, distinctly different from the previous, captures the energy, youth and diversity of the more than 2.2 million veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9\/11. The new brand was designed <em>pro bono<\/em> by world-renowned branding agency Landor Associates, which has worked with major companies such as Blackberry, Citi, FedEx and MillerCoors. To help unveil our new brand, IAVA asked members and supporters nationwide to share in one word what IAVA\u2019s mission means to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Energy? Youth? Diversity? It looks like zebra stripes and zebras are the pussies of the savannah &#8211; always galloping away from something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pro bono&#8221; must be Latin for &#8220;still not worth it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One word to describe what IAVA means to me? &#8220;Bald&#8221;. &#8220;Cueball&#8221;. Those are the words that jump into my mind when I think of IAVA. Is &#8220;Fuckstick&#8221; one word?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe I&#8217;m showing my age, but what the hell is that? Actually, it&#8217;s the new brand &hellip; <a title=\"WTH does that say?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23582\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WTH does that say?<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iava"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23582","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=23582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}