{"id":61188,"date":"2015-08-04T10:15:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61188"},"modified":"2015-08-04T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T13:45:49","slug":"happy-225th-birthday-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61188","title":{"rendered":"Happy 225th birthday, Coast Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61189\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61189\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/coast_guard_birthday_subheader-300x100.jpg\" alt=\"coast_guard_birthday_subheader\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/coast_guard_birthday_subheader-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/coast_guard_birthday_subheader.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Folks are reminding us that the Coast Guard was founded 225 years ago today on August 4th, 1790 when it was the United States Revenue Cutter Service to  enforce tariff and trade laws, prevent smuggling, and protect the collection of federal revenue. The service became the Coast Guard on January 28, 1915 and then in 1939, the United States Lighthouse Service was folded in to the branch. It moved from the Transportation Department to Homeland Security in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in New London, Connecticut today;<\/p>\n<p>MEDIA ALERT: New London Celebrates U.S. Coast Guard\u2019s 225th Birthday<br \/>\nWHEN: TODAY Tuesday August 4, 1:30 pm<br \/>\nWHERE: City Pier, New London CT (behind the train station on the river side of railroad tracks)<br \/>\nWHO:  Local, state and military dignitaries<br \/>\nWHAT: Join the U.S. Navy, the State of Connecticut and the City of New London in celebrating the United          States Coast Guard\u2019s 225th Anniversary.  The ceremony will include a colorful tribute to the Coast Guard on the Thames River, a 13 gun salute from the Navy, and a huge birthday cake courtesy of Foxwoods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks are reminding us that the Coast Guard was founded 225 years ago today on August &hellip; <a title=\"Happy 225th birthday, Coast Guard\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61188\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy 225th birthday, Coast Guard<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coast-guard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61188","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=61188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}