{"id":52960,"date":"2014-07-03T08:40:31","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=52960"},"modified":"2014-07-03T08:40:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T12:40:31","slug":"hagel-thanks-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52960","title":{"rendered":"Hagel thanks Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=52965\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52965\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hagel-Howard-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hagel Howard\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hagel-Howard-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hagel-Howard-272x333.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Hagel-Howard.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel thanked some soccer dude named Tim Howard for &#8220;defending the United States&#8221; against the evil Belgians&#8217; attack on our goal thing at the World Cup of Nonsports according to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/07\/02\/chuck-hagel-thanks-tim-howard-for-defending-united-states\/?intcmp=latestnews\"> Fox News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Howard set a World Cup record for saves in Tuesday&#8217;s match against Belgium, launching the hashtag #TimHowardCouldSave on Twitter. His record-breaking efforts were insufficient however, as the United States fell to Belgium 2-1. The disparity in goals bodes poorly for the man Hagel said \u201ccould someday become the real Secretary of Defense.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I guess this Howard person couldn&#8217;t do any worse than Hagel in that position, but I&#8217;d like to hear his plans to get us out of the difficulties that this administration has created for us around the world &#8211; especially since I haven&#8217;t heard anything from the White House or Hagel.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Chuck, there are a several thousand other folks whose pictures aren&#8217;t in the news today who you could thank by not screwing them to the wall. They&#8217;re also defending the United States against worse enemies than a bunch of Belgians in short pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel thanked some soccer dude named Tim Howard for &#8220;defending the &hellip; <a title=\"Hagel thanks Howard\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=52960\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hagel thanks Howard<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52960","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=52960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}