{"id":25652,"date":"2011-07-04T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T13:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25652"},"modified":"2011-07-04T13:12:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T17:12:13","slug":"lazy-day-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25652","title":{"rendered":"Lazy Day Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the July 4 weekend, the mainstream media and the interwebs\u00a0seem\u00a0a little more interested in the military and America than they normal are.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a compilation of some interesting things going on out there.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/07\/03\/armys-last-draftee-to-retire-after-3-years\/?test=latestnews\">last draftee<\/a> retired from the Army after 39 years of honorable service.<\/p>\n<p>Who doesn&#8217;t know someone who <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-07-02\/us\/california.marines.fraud_1_marines-face-charges-lesbian-couple-marine-spokeswoman?_s=PM:US\">married for the benefits<\/a>,\u00a0or just to get out of the barracks, and maybe even got caught?\u00a0 \u00a0The news finds this newsworthy because they&#8217;re lesbians.<\/p>\n<p>And an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2011\/07\/03\/vietnam-war-veteran-wins-fight-to-fly-american-flag-on-front-lawn\/?test=latestnews\">Ohio Vietnam vet<\/a> got the OK from his HOA to fly his flag from a 15 foot pole.<\/p>\n<p>I borrowed this <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304584004576417670477053368.html\">link<\/a>,\u00a0 written by the father of a soldier from Kanani Fong, of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/kitchendispatch.blogspot.com\/\">Kitchen Dispatch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you haven&#8217;t, yet, catch up on the twenty-something posts Jonn made before he left!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the July 4 weekend, the mainstream media and the interwebs\u00a0seem\u00a0a little more interested in &hellip; <a title=\"Lazy Day Roundup\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25652\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lazy Day Roundup<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,122,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-veterans-in-politics","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25652","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\/601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}