{"id":27805,"date":"2011-12-06T08:34:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T12:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27805"},"modified":"2012-02-03T01:51:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T05:51:22","slug":"ivaw-potsmoker-at-occupy-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27805","title":{"rendered":"IVAW potsmoker at Occupy DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2011\/12\/figures-occupy-dc-hero-soldier-got-kicked-out-of-military-for-smoking-dope\/#comments\">Gateway Pundit<\/a> who links to <a href=\"http:\/\/lagniappeslair.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/another-military-poser-emerges-as.html\">Lagniappe&#8217;s Lair<\/a> which reports that the &#8220;icon&#8221; of veterans in the Occupy DC protests, Michael Patterson, seen here in his IVAW hoodie was tossed out the Army for smoking pot;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/patterson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/patterson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"patterson\" width=\"430\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27806\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/patterson.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/patterson-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From an interview <a href=\"http:\/\/readersupportednews.org\/news-section2\/316-20\/8363-at-occupy-camps-veterans-bring-the-wars-home\">Patterson did<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He tried to get out of the military as a conscientious objector after that. He was told it wouldn&#8217;t work because he&#8217;s an atheist. &#8220;So I just smoked a bunch of pot and got kicked out,&#8221; he says. He was officially discharged on June 7th of this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s what an &#8220;icon&#8221; does. The good news for parents is that Patterson aspires to be a teacher, so you may see him in your school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam sends us a link to Gateway Pundit who links to Lagniappe&#8217;s Lair which reports that &hellip; <a title=\"IVAW potsmoker at Occupy DC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27805\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IVAW potsmoker at Occupy DC<\/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":[37,190,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivaw","category-occupy","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27805","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=27805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}