{"id":28644,"date":"2012-02-07T11:11:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T15:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28644"},"modified":"2012-02-07T11:11:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T15:11:14","slug":"where-have-the-milblogs-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28644","title":{"rendered":"Where Have the MilBlogs Gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, David Marron of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thunderrun.us\/2012\/02\/where-have-milblogs-gone.html\">The Thunder Run<\/a> ruminates about the demise of Milblogs at his place. With the drawdowns from Iraq and Afghanistan, it appears that those who write from the frontlines have withdrawn, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So what happened to the wide spread use of social media by the troops? The best I can tell is that they either went dark or completely private, meaning the blog owner has to approve you to view their posts, because Big Army has put the hammer down on anything that doesn\u2019t reflect highly on the mission or the commanders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I never considered this blog a &#8220;milblog&#8221; because we&#8217;ve never had anyone writing from the frontlines, except in my own personal war against the hippies. It was other people who began calling us a milblog, I mean, I&#8217;m glad they did. I&#8217;ve never had so many like-mind, former military friends. <\/p>\n<p>But Marron blames &#8220;Big Army&#8221; for screwing down the troops&#8217; participation in the social media outlets to keep a lid on bad information getting out. It must be a recent phenomenon, becuase under the Bush years, it was encouraged. Yeah, I know, I sound like I&#8217;m blaming Obama for everything, but, ya know, if the shoe fits&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, David Marron of The Thunder Run ruminates about the demise of Milblogs at his &hellip; <a title=\"Where Have the MilBlogs Gone?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28644\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where Have the MilBlogs Gone?<\/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":[46,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-bloggers-and-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28644","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=28644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}