{"id":57875,"date":"2015-01-26T14:07:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57875"},"modified":"2015-01-26T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T19:07:05","slug":"dempsey-sponsors-essay-contest-to-honor-saudi-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57875","title":{"rendered":"Dempsey sponsors essay contest to honor Saudi king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=128034\">Defense.gov<\/a> presser that I have to warn is NOT the Duffel Blog or any other satire. With everything else going on in the world, General Martin E. Dempsey, the top US military officer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has announced an essay contest to honor the recently deceased Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\tThe king was a lifetime supporter of his country\u2019s alliance with the United States. Abdullah ruled Saudi Arabia from 2005 to his death, and served as regent of the country from 1995. He is succeeded by King Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important opportunity to honor the memory of the king, while also fostering scholarly research on the Arab-Muslim world, and I can think of no better home for such an initiative than [ National Defense University],\u201d Dempsey said in a statement announcing the competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, you fellows over there in Iraq and Syria, busting caps on those multi-national ISIS fellows, put down your rifles for a few minutes and submit your entry while you reflect on those ties that we share with Saudi Arabia. Maybe you can get that ARCOM you&#8217;ve always wanted. <\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I&#8217;m just being subversive again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another Defense.gov presser that I have to warn is NOT the Duffel Blog or &hellip; <a title=\"Dempsey sponsors essay contest to honor Saudi king\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57875\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dempsey sponsors essay contest to honor Saudi king<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57875","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=57875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/54764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}