{"id":55715,"date":"2014-10-13T07:15:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T11:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55715"},"modified":"2014-10-10T14:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T18:23:32","slug":"the-senior-military-service-sends-its-congratulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55715","title":{"rendered":"The Senior Military Service Sends Its Congratulations . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . to the second-oldest US military service on the occasion of its 239th birthday.\u00a0 Specifically:\u00a0 Happy Birthday, US Navy.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cb\/United_States_Department_of_the_Navy_Seal.svg\/480px-United_States_Department_of_the_Navy_Seal.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" \/><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The US Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/faqs\/faq31-1.htm\">traces its origin to the establishment of the Continental Navy<\/a>.\u00a0 That occurred on Friday, 13 October 1775, in Philadelphia, PA. On that date, the Continental Congress voted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.navy.mil\/faqs\/faq59-13.htm\">to outfit two armed sailing vessels and send them to sea to interdict enemy shipping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Born on Friday the 13th? Well, I guess that does explain why the rest of the US military finds the Navy a bit . . . strange at times. (smile)<\/p>\n<p>All kidding aside: you &#8220;damp service&#8221; folks may be different, but we love ya like brothers (and sisters). And you&#8217;re certainly damn good at what you do.<\/p>\n<p>Again:\u00a0 best birthday wishes to the finest Navy in the world.\u00a0 We of the elder military service wish you fair winds and following seas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . to the second-oldest US military service on the occasion of its 239th birthday.\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"The Senior Military Service Sends Its Congratulations . . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55715\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Senior Military Service Sends Its Congratulations . . . .<\/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-55715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55715","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=55715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}