{"id":34699,"date":"2013-03-22T14:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34699"},"modified":"2013-03-22T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:11:44","slug":"34699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34699","title":{"rendered":"I Think I Finally &#8220;Get It&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why the Navy seems so odd to everyone else, that is.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simple.\u00a0 They think and look at the world differently.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s an example.\u00a0 In any sane world, room 5D22 generally is next to (or maybe across the hall from) room 5D23.<\/p>\n<p>On a ship \u2013 or in a building laid out by a Navy contractor \u2013 it\u2019s often <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.org\/irp\/doddir\/navy\/rfs\/part01.htm\">completely on the other side of the ship or building<\/a>.\u00a0 That\u2019s called the \u201ceven\/odd rule\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Also, decks above the main deck are <em>levels<\/em>, not decks \u2013 even though they\u2019re decks.\u00a0 Decks including and below the main deck \u2013 <em>those<\/em> are decks.\u00a0 And the main deck may or may not be big one that\u2019s open to the air (it\u2019s not on a carrier).\u00a0 And so on.<\/p>\n<p>Once you realize that, why the Navy seems \u201cdifferent\u201d to everyone else all starts to kinda make sense.<\/p>\n<p>You nautical types are kinda weird, but we love you anyway. (smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why the Navy seems so odd to everyone else, that is. It\u2019s simple.\u00a0 They think and &hellip; <a title=\"I Think I Finally &#8220;Get It&#8221;!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34699\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Think I Finally &#8220;Get It&#8221;!<\/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":[119,26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699","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=34699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}