{"id":28916,"date":"2012-02-28T15:01:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T19:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28916"},"modified":"2012-02-28T15:01:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T19:01:46","slug":"while-vet-health-care-gets-cut-gitmo-prisoners-get-new-soccer-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28916","title":{"rendered":"While vet health care gets cut, Gitmo prisoners get new soccer field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least they&#8217;re putting my money to good use (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/02\/28\/guantanamo-detainees-get-new-750g-soccer-field\/\">Fox News<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At a time of record deficits, a new soccer field for detainees at Camp 6 in Guantanamo Bay is just getting the finishing touches &#8212; at a cost of $750,000 to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p>The project was the highlight of a tour Tuesday of the detention camp for reporters at the facility covering the arraignment in a military court of Majid Khan, a former Baltimore resident and the the only legal U.S. resident on trial at Guantanamo.<\/p>\n<p>The project began in April 2011 and is due to finish this spring. The detainees will now have three recreation facilities at Camp 6, which is home to &#8220;highly compliant&#8221; detainees who live in a communal setting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe we can kick in a couple of million more for a multiplex theater and some strip clubs, too. I suddenly don&#8217;t mind having my healthcare costs increased as long as they&#8217;re saving money like this. I just got a notice that my retirement pay has changed again this year. I wonder what that&#8217;s about, but I&#8217;m too scared to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least they&#8217;re putting my money to good use (Fox News link); At a time &hellip; <a title=\"While vet health care gets cut, Gitmo prisoners get new soccer field\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28916\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">While vet health care gets cut, Gitmo prisoners get new soccer field<\/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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28916","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=28916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}