{"id":38833,"date":"2013-12-12T17:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38833"},"modified":"2013-12-12T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:11:18","slug":"google-ponies-up-for-wreaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38833","title":{"rendered":"Google ponies up for wreaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I told you that Wreaths Across America, the organization that puts wreaths on the markers of veterans across the country, was coming up short in contributions this year to meet some of their goals. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/google-donates-cash-to-help-group-put-holiday-wreaths-on-arlington-graves\/2013\/12\/10\/faccf9c2-61d0-11e3-bf45-61f69f54fc5f_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, Google, of all folks, came up with the cash;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google, which is mapping the cemetery with cameras mounted on people and cars, donated $250,000 to Wreaths Across America, a nonprofit organization that has been laying wreaths there since 1992. Others also contributed smaller amounts after a reading a story in last week\u2019s Washington Post that reported that the effort was falling short this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re happy to do our part to honor veterans during this holiday season,\u201d said Susan Molinari, Google\u2019s vice president of public policy and government relations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good for Google &#8211; I never expected it from them. WAA will now be able to put 130,000 wreaths on markers in Arlington out of the nearly quarter million heroes stationed at their final duty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I told you that Wreaths Across America, the organization that puts wreaths on &hellip; <a title=\"Google ponies up for wreaths\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38833\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google ponies up for wreaths<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38833","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=38833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}