{"id":58769,"date":"2015-03-17T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58769"},"modified":"2015-03-16T19:21:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T23:21:26","slug":"dave-duffy-no-entitlement-to-military-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58769","title":{"rendered":"Dave Duffy: no entitlement to military discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This fellow Dave Duffy claims, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/checkpoint\/wp\/2015\/03\/16\/opinion-no-room-for-sense-of-entitlement-among-veterans-and-military-families\/\">Washington Post<\/a>, that he&#8217;s a retired Army lieutenant colonel who is now an entrepreneur with a couple of smoothie shops. It sounds like he offers a discount to members of the military, but not their families. That decision earned one of his cashiers a rant from a family member;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recently, I had a military spouse grow irate with my cashier because we didn\u2019t offer a discount to military family members. Unfortunately, this is not the first time this has happened. I guess I could stop offering any discount at all to the military, but would rather not. In this particular case, my cashier was on the receiving end of a very long tirade about how obviously unappreciative ownership must be of the sacrifices of the military family. The woman ended by stating \u201cit would be in the owner\u2019s best interest\u201d to offer discounts to families as well. I wish I was there to find out exactly what she meant beyond her vague threat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that story is true, I agree with him. I&#8217;ve said before that it wouldn&#8217;t upset me even a little bit if everyone did away with their military discounts. I never use them. My wife does for things for the house at Lowe&#8217;s and Home Depot, but I just can&#8217;t bring myself to pinch pennies. For one thing, the discounts are another wedge in the relationship between us and civvies. For another, it&#8217;s a reason for people to pretend that they&#8217;re in the military, and what prosecutor is going to go after a stolen valor guy for $.30 on a box of screws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This fellow Dave Duffy claims, in the Washington Post, that he&#8217;s a retired Army lieutenant colonel &hellip; <a title=\"Dave Duffy: no entitlement to military discounts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58769\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dave Duffy: no entitlement to military discounts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769","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=58769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}