{"id":26328,"date":"2011-08-28T18:21:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26328"},"modified":"2011-08-28T18:21:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T22:21:06","slug":"a-young-cindy-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26328","title":{"rendered":"A Young Cindy in the Making?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grief is an odd thing. It&#8217;s quite real, and has a place most of us can recognize.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes it takes on a form that requires either additional pity or speculative rancor to deal with from the outside?<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Sheehan is one case in point, now we seem to have another.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/default\/article\/Army-Ranger-s-widow-expelled-from-book-signing-2144969.php\" target=\"_blank\">Army Ranger&#8217;s widow expelled from book signing<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ashley Joppa-Hagemann told The News-Tribune on Saturday that security officers for the former secretary of defense escorted her out by the arm. She and the executive director of a Lakewood-based anti-war group confronted Rumsfeld as he promoted his memoir, &#8220;Known and\u00a0Unknown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She had introduced herself to Rumsfeld by handing a copy of her husband&#8217;s funeral program to the former defense secretary. She told him her husband had joined the military because he believed the lies told by Rumsfeld during his tenure with the Bush\u00a0administration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet dug into the details, but the article says she was in the company of someone from an &#8220;anti-war group&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with grief\u00a0 in almost any context can be a challenge, and with Cindy as an example, some don&#8217;t do it well at all.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope this particular new case doesn&#8217;t follow THAT pattern.<\/p>\n<p>I kinda like my villains clear cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grief is an odd thing. It&#8217;s quite real, and has a place most of us can &hellip; <a title=\"A Young Cindy in the Making?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26328\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Young Cindy in the Making?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,5,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-politics","category-protestsrallies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26328","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}