{"id":25971,"date":"2011-07-26T08:45:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=25971"},"modified":"2011-07-26T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T12:45:49","slug":"davs-virtual-march-on-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25971","title":{"rendered":"DAV&#8217;s virtual march on Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/dc-politics\/disabled-veterans-and-supporters-plan-virtual-march-to-protect-benefits\/2011\/07\/25\/gIQABLAWZI_story.html?hpid=z10\">Washington Post<\/a> is an article about the veterans&#8217; organization, the Disabled American Veterans, which plans a virtual march on Washington tomorrow, primarily from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=226797254026308\">their Facebook presence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve heard is that if the debt limit isn\u2019t raised, the government may not have enough money to pay its obligations, including veterans benefits checks,\u201d said Garry Augustine, the DAV\u2019s national service director. \u201cWhether it\u2019s accurate or not we\u2019re not sure, but it makes people nervous when they hear it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is outrageous that disabled veterans have become political pawns in the fight over how to increase the government\u2019s borrowing authority,\u201d DAV National Commander Wallace E. Tyson said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I see that some of you are already registered there and although DAV seems more concerned with current payments and not so much with the long term effects of the budget fight, it&#8217;s probably a good idea to participate in it &#8211; just to let Congress know how many of us they&#8217;re pissing off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Washington Post is an article about the veterans&#8217; organization, the Disabled American Veterans, which &hellip; <a title=\"DAV&#8217;s virtual march on Washington\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=25971\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DAV&#8217;s virtual march on Washington<\/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-25971","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\/25971","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=25971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}