{"id":30378,"date":"2012-06-13T17:26:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T21:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30378"},"modified":"2012-06-13T17:26:23","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T21:26:23","slug":"thank-you-mediahollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30378","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, Media\/Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/poll-civilians-believe-veterans-are-valuable-but-lack-education-and-suffer-ptsd-1.180277\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that a poll commissioned by the veterans advocacy group The Mission Continues and the Hollywood production company Bad Robot finds that Americans consider veterans &#8220;a valuable civic asset&#8221; however, they also think we&#8217;re stupid and dangerous;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But 53 percent said they believe that the majority of veterans returning from Iraq or Afghanistan suffer from PTSD \u2014 most experts say about one-fifth may suffer from it \u2014 and 44 percent believe that those veterans are more likely to abuse drugs are alcohol than non-veterans. VA studies have shown slightly higher rates, but not a dramatic difference.<\/p>\n<p>They also viewed younger veterans in general as hard workers but likely without a college-level education, even after they leave the military. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, I wonder where they got that idea? Unless they read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30115\">this story<\/a>, or maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28357\">this one<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27742\">this one<\/a> perhaps. And they ignored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29235\">this one<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29237\">this one<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29346\">this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes reports that a poll commissioned by the veterans advocacy group The Mission &hellip; <a title=\"Thank you, Media\/Hollywood\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30378\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thank you, Media\/Hollywood<\/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-30378","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\/30378","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=30378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}