{"id":56107,"date":"2014-10-29T12:24:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56107"},"modified":"2014-10-29T12:25:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T16:25:06","slug":"dod-gets-one-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56107","title":{"rendered":"DoD Corrects an Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who serves in the military \u2013 well, everyone except those literally dumb enough to qualify as \u201crocks with lips\u201d \u2013 knows that it\u2019s a dangerous job. The Pale Horse and his Rider are constant companions; sometimes they\u2019re near at hand, and sometimes they\u2019re far in the distance. But they\u2019re always there.<\/p>\n<p>Those serving accept this. All they ask is that, should the worst happen, they be taken care of properly and given their due.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time, DoD does that. But sometimes DoD stumbles. (Don\u2019t get me started on Fort Hood.)<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s incredibly heartening to see this:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/marine-corporal-is-reclassified-as-1st-to-die-in-operation-inherent-resolve-1.310939\">Marine corporal is reclassified as 1st to die in Operation Inherent Resolve<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Cpl Spears. It took a while, but DoD got their act together regarding your demise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who serves in the military \u2013 well, everyone except those literally dumb enough to qualify &hellip; <a title=\"DoD Corrects an Error\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56107\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DoD Corrects an Error<\/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":[75,84,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-military-issues","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56107","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=56107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}