{"id":27648,"date":"2011-11-24T20:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T00:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27648"},"modified":"2011-11-24T21:03:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T01:03:58","slug":"the-troops-celebrate-thanksgiving-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27648","title":{"rendered":"The troops celebrate Thanksgiving in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s the holiday that celebrates our one culture, our shared heritage as Americans, and we take it with us wherever we go. <\/p>\n<p>It was usually the only holiday I wasn&#8217;t working. But I was always in my Blues at the Mess hall taking my turn serving the troops and I really do miss that;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/teNrEQ3VZzE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k1p-5GvwZgg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/thanksgiving-2011-troops-in-afghanistan-chow-down-1.161560\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve deployed four times, and this is by far the best holiday celebration I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d said Sgt. Richard Guyness, 31, of Newman, Calif. \u201cThis is more like family \u2014 because we are family.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Toothless Dawg for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s the holiday that celebrates our one culture, our shared heritage as Americans, and we &hellip; <a title=\"The troops celebrate Thanksgiving in Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27648\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The troops celebrate Thanksgiving in Afghanistan<\/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":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648","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=27648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}