{"id":26490,"date":"2011-09-13T07:31:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T11:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26490"},"modified":"2011-09-13T07:31:22","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T11:31:22","slug":"i-was-a-neglected-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26490","title":{"rendered":"I was a neglected child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sent a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/when_happiness_was_a_warm_toy_gun.html\">The American Thinker<\/a> post written by our buddy Scott Swett and Selwyn Duke which included this video;<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"height: 390px; width: 640px\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cvCTJlADySQ?version=3\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cvCTJlADySQ?version=3\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how I didn&#8217;t know this cool set existed, unless it was because my parents made me go play out in the woods with the few Army toys I did have instead of laying around watching television. But, I watched every episode of Combat! and Rat Patrol (now that I&#8217;m almost grown up, I own all of CDs of all of the seasons of both of those shows).<\/p>\n<p>The scary part is that, neither my brothers nor I ever went on a bloody rampage as a result of our boyhood play. To the best of my knowledge, I was the only one from our pack of friends who joined the military, though most of our fathers had come home from the Korean War. <\/p>\n<p>Scott Swett makes the point that liberals would probably shit themselves if this commercial made it to the Cartoon Network today, or if the really cool set was available today. In fact, I suspect that my daughter would have conniptions if I bought it for my grandson, but she&#8217;d probably forget that her brother and I used to play laser tag in the house, shooting each other with realistic guns and now he&#8217;s an Air Force surgical technician &#8211; not a crazed mass murderer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sent a link to The American Thinker post written by our buddy Scott Swett &hellip; <a title=\"I was a neglected child\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26490\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I was a neglected child<\/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":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26490","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=26490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}