{"id":59152,"date":"2015-04-08T07:27:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T11:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59152"},"modified":"2015-04-08T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T10:40:09","slug":"more-government-akk-yur-ah-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59152","title":{"rendered":"More Government Ak-yur-uh-see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the USPS honored US the late entertainer and author Maya Angelou. They issued a stamp in her honor.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only one teeny little problem. The stamp apparently features a quote that isn\u2019t Angelou&#8217;s.\u00a0 Rather, it\u2019s a slightly-modified version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-maya-angelou-stamp-quote-20150407-story.html\"><i>a phrase actually written by children\u2019s author Joan Walsh Anglund in 1967<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time recently that the USPS has Fornicated Fido, though. In 2010, the USPS issued a stamp honoring the Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately, the stamp used an image of a Las Vegas replica of the statue instead of the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>We vets shouldn\u2019t really be surprised at this kind of stuff. As Jonn noted here at TAH multiple times, vets have seen government at its best . . . and at its worst. And we know \u2013 from firsthand experience \u2013 that there\u2019s usually not a helluva lot of difference between the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the USPS honored US the late entertainer and author Maya Angelou. They issued a stamp &hellip; <a title=\"More Government Ak-yur-uh-see\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59152\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Government Ak-yur-uh-see<\/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":[209,213,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-government-incompetence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59152","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=59152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}