{"id":46900,"date":"2014-05-12T07:48:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46900"},"modified":"2014-05-12T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T11:49:21","slug":"rip-uss-saratoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46900","title":{"rendered":"RIP, USS Saratoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one\u2019s for our nautical brothers and sisters who read TAH.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>USS Saratoga<\/i> is now history.\u00a0 The Navy has officially contracted with ESCO Marine to scrap her.\u00a0 She\u2019ll be scrapped at some point in the future in Brownsville, TX.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, she\u2019d already been decommissioned.\u00a0 And yeah, we can\u2019t just keep ships around forever when they\u2019re no longer needed.<\/p>\n<p>Still: \u00a0I\u2019d guess a few of our readers may have served on the <i>USS Saratoga<\/i>, and will be interested in knowing about her end.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Navy Times<\/span> has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navytimes.com\/article\/20140508\/NEWS04\/305080053\/Navy-pays-1-cent-scrap-ex-carrier-Saratoga\">brief article on the subject<\/a>, which gives a few more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one\u2019s for our nautical brothers and sisters who read TAH. The USS Saratoga is now &hellip; <a title=\"RIP, USS Saratoga\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46900\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP, USS Saratoga<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46900","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=46900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}