{"id":31123,"date":"2012-07-31T11:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31123"},"modified":"2012-07-31T11:35:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T15:35:45","slug":"sometimes-one-individual-can-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31123","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes One Individual Can Make a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Clackamas Town Center mall in Oregon has a \u201ckiddie train\u201d. Some time ago, mall management noticed that the kiddie train\u00a0 conductor had adorned the train with the American flag.<\/p>\n<p>Mall management was not amused. They <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/toddstarnes\/top-stories\/mall-reconsiders-flag-ban-on-kiddie-train.html\">decided the flag was an \u201cunapproved visual\u201d, and ordered it removed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the train\u2019s conductor balked. And not only did he balk, though in doing so he risked losing his job or being banned from the mall. He also went public to local media.<\/p>\n<p>Public reaction was reasonably swift. And it wasn\u2019t in favor of mall management.<\/p>\n<p>Mall management relented. Old Glory still adorns the train.<\/p>\n<p>Why did this happen? You\u2019ll have to ask the mall\u2019s management why they chose to act like ignorant fools. I certainly can&#8217;t explain their behavior.<\/p>\n<p>But it turns out the kiddie train driver was a vet. \u2018Nuff said about why he stood his ground.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Thomas Phelps. I don\u2019t know your branch of service \u2013 and I don&#8217;t care. \u00a0 Well done, fella; very well done.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m also guessing you\u2019re not related to that crowd of idiots who run the Westboro Baptist Church, either. (smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Clackamas Town Center mall in Oregon has a \u201ckiddie train\u201d. Some time ago, mall management noticed &hellip; <a title=\"Sometimes One Individual Can Make a Difference\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31123\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sometimes One Individual Can Make a Difference<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,84,13,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-military-issues","category-society","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31123","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}