{"id":26995,"date":"2011-10-13T08:22:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26995"},"modified":"2011-10-13T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T12:24:06","slug":"happy-236th-birthday-swabbies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26995","title":{"rendered":"Happy 236th Birthday, swabbies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Navy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26996\" title=\"Navy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Navy-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Navy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Navy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Navy.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/birthday.htm\">US Navy was established on this date in 1775<\/a>, although it wasn&#8217;t until the following year that Benedict Arnold led the first fleet of ships in their first naval engagement at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.historiclakes.org\/Valcour\/Valcour.html\">Valcour Island<\/a> on Lake Champlain near Plattsburgh, NY from the birthplace of the Navy at WHitehall, NY. By the way, Arnold won that battle by sinking his fleet and delaying the british deployment south for another winter.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, my Dad was a Radioman 1st Class in the Navy during the Korean War on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Saipan_%28CVL-48%29\">USS Saipan (CVL-48)<\/a>;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Initiation-my-Dad.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26997\" title=\"Initiation - my Dad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Initiation-my-Dad.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Navy was established on this date in 1775, although it wasn&#8217;t until the following &hellip; <a title=\"Happy 236th Birthday, swabbies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26995\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy 236th Birthday, swabbies<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26995","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=26995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}