{"id":26367,"date":"2011-08-31T11:14:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T15:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26367"},"modified":"2011-08-31T11:14:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T15:14:49","slug":"shinseki-at-the-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26367","title":{"rendered":"Shinseki at the Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/6100274158\/\" title=\"Eric Shinseki at the 2011 American Legion Convention by jlilyea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6199\/6100274158_fd8655f300.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" alt=\"Eric Shinseki at the 2011 American Legion Convention\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who he thinks he&#8217;s kidding, but Eric Shinseki the director of the Department of Veterans Affairs just promised that he&#8217;s committed to ending veteran homelessness by 2015. I admire his commitment, but his staff are incompetent boobs. For example, he bragged that they&#8217;ll have our medical records automated &#8220;soon&#8221; and as proof that his agency can accomplish this, he pointed out the success they had with implementing the new GI Bill&#8230;you remember that abortion, right? Payments were late and families went hungry waiting on the checks to keep the former servicemembers in college.<\/p>\n<p>But Shinseki did just join the American Legion today. Where has he been all of these years?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who he thinks he&#8217;s kidding, but Eric Shinseki the director of the Department &hellip; <a title=\"Shinseki at the Convention\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26367\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shinseki at the Convention<\/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":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367","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=26367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}