{"id":50616,"date":"2014-06-11T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T21:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50616"},"modified":"2014-06-11T19:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T23:11:05","slug":"it-is-only-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50616","title":{"rendered":"It Is Only History."},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
\nGeorge Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Many years ago we did our duty, came home, and watched as Saigon fell. Some were still there.<\/p>\n

History seems to be repeating itself yet again.<\/p>\n

In Iraq cities are falling not unlike they did back then. Most recent updates suggest that Baghdad is next.<\/p>\n

Small positive thing. The folks that went into Iraq didn’t get spit at\/on when they came home.\u00a0 The rest remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of … It Is Only History.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50616","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}