{"id":39950,"date":"2014-02-21T16:31:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T21:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39950"},"modified":"2014-02-21T16:31:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T21:31:20","slug":"nyng-suspends-four-for-casket-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39950","title":{"rendered":"NYNG suspends four for casket humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beretverde sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/4-in-New-York-Guard-suspended-from-funeral-duty-5252462.php\">Albany Times Union<\/a> which reports that four New York National Guardsman have also been suspended from their duties for taking part in the group picture that caused such a stir in the last week &#8211; the picture that Specialist Terry Harrison posted to her Instagram account;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Eric Durr, a spokesman for the New York State Division of Military Affairs in Latham, said the soldiers&#8217; identities are being withheld because the investigation is in progress, which Durr said is standard procedure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The recent discovery of a photograph of National Guard honor guard members displaying inappropriate behavior in what should be a solemn setting during training in Arkansas undermines the proud service and achievement of our 35 full-time and 135 part-time honor guard soldiers here in New York,&#8221; the New York Guard statement said Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all understand the solemn and serious nature of these ceremonies. Our members have performed this service with tremendous dignity and reverence since 1999 for more than 100,000 New York military families,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beretverde sends us a link from the Albany Times Union which reports that four New York &hellip; <a title=\"NYNG suspends four for casket humor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39950\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NYNG suspends four for casket humor<\/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":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39950","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=39950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}