{"id":23811,"date":"2011-06-09T08:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23811"},"modified":"2011-06-09T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:59:39","slug":"why-you-should-hire-a-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23811","title":{"rendered":"Why you should hire a vet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/43245099\/ns\/today-good_news\/\">Tman sends us a link<\/a> to the story of a 91-year-old Marine veteran, Morris Wilkinson, who fought in the pacific during WWII who is still on the job at the Post Office in Alabama with 70 years of federal service;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His shoes are always meticulously shined. His hair is always perfectly in place. He\u2019s cordial and courteous, and he\u2019s loath to shirk a single obligation. In fact, he refused to be interviewed for this story until he was off the clock because he had no interest in \u201cwasting time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks for your service, Morris. Your story is one that will dissipate the Hollywood version of what war veterans should be like. Employers, hire a veteran and he may still be on the job 70 years from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tman sends us a link to the story of a 91-year-old Marine veteran, Morris Wilkinson, who &hellip; <a title=\"Why you should hire a vet\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23811\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why you should hire a vet<\/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-23811","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\/23811","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=23811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}