{"id":29953,"date":"2012-05-14T18:05:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T22:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29953"},"modified":"2012-05-14T18:05:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T22:05:14","slug":"that-parade-in-richmond-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29953","title":{"rendered":"That parade in Richmond on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t read it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2012\/05\/by-god-its-time-for-a-parade.html\">Blackfive<\/a>, those of you in the DC\/Richmond area might want to attend the Welcome Home parade they&#8217;ve scheduled for Saturday, May 19th (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29691\">that&#8217;s this weekend<\/a>, yeah, I know it snuck up on me, too). Our buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedconservatives.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/i-love-parade.html\">Concrete Bob<\/a> is masterminding it &#8211; the same guy who has organized the counterprotests at Walter Reed, the GOE counterprotests and he was even involved in organizing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14317\">huge-ass Tea Party event on September 12th, 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Next Saturday, 19 May in Richmond VA there is going to be a parade to welcome home the Iraq and Afghan vets and salute them for their service and sacrifice. I realize we still have troops downrange, and they are likely to stay awhile yet, but its time to do this thing. We tried a few years back, couldn&#8217;t get anything going. Hard to get funding sometimes. But this time, with the help of the Welcome Home Foundation, the Richmond Times Dispatch, and hundreds of volunteers, the parade is going to happen and we are going to pawwwwtay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll be there to take pictures, and I&#8217;ll let you buy me some beer if you come, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you didn&#8217;t read it at Blackfive, those of you in the DC\/Richmond area might want &hellip; <a title=\"That parade in Richmond on Saturday\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29953\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That parade in Richmond on Saturday<\/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":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protestsrallies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29953","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=29953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}