{"id":30730,"date":"2012-07-11T11:21:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T15:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30730"},"modified":"2012-07-11T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T15:21:47","slug":"all-the-live-long-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30730","title":{"rendered":"All the live long day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aar.org\/jobs\">Association of American Railroads<\/a> wrote to tell us that they&#8217;re committed to hiring five thousand veterans.<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1728983905001&#038;playerID=1127237460001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAABBi3njEk~,fXHlbhahFU0HstAylquCHAI0y337acJJ&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&#038;isUI=1\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=1728983905001&#038;playerID=1127237460001&#038;playerKey=AQ~~,AAABBi3njEk~,fXHlbhahFU0HstAylquCHAI0y337acJJ&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.cnn.com\/2012\/07\/10\/us\/veterans-rail-industry\/index.html?hpt=hp_t2\">A CNN article<\/a> says that 23% of railroad workers are retiring in the next three years and they want to replace them with veterans;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The railroad association is working with the Department of Veteran Affairs to make sure that 500 railroad companies &#8212; including freight, inter-city passenger and commuter railroads &#8212; are committed to offering military servicemen and women jobs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The railway industry clearly recognizes that hiring veterans is good for their companies, bottom line, and we are appreciative of their efforts to serve veterans as well as they have served the country,&#8221; said Brad Cooper, executive director of Joining Forces, a White House initiative to provide opportunities and support to service members and their families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at the Association of American Railroads wrote to tell us that they&#8217;re committed to &hellip; <a title=\"All the live long day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30730\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All the live long day<\/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-30730","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\/30730","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=30730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}