{"id":6520,"date":"2008-12-27T10:16:16","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T15:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2008-12-27T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T15:36:44","slug":"reading-too-much-into-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6520","title":{"rendered":"Reading too much into it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some bloggers (who shall remain nameless) have been crowing that the Marines in Hawaii snubbed Barack Obama when he showed up for chow at their messhall Christmas Day based on this account from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2008\/12\/obama-visits-ma.html\" target=\"_blank\">ABC&#8217;s Jake Tapper<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As Obama entered the room, it was absent of the regular fanfare of cheering and clapping. The diners were polite, staying seated at their respective tables and waited for the president-elect to come to them to stand up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess this why there are milbloggers &#8211; to keep everyone else straight. Military courtesy extends to every aspect of military life including what you do when a ranking officer enters the dining facility. You quietly put down your silverware and turn towards the VIP when &#8220;At Ease&#8221; is called by the first person to see the VIP entering the building. Then you continue eating when that VIP or his military escort calls out &#8220;Carry On&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>No one snubbed Obama, and I find it hard to believe any would. I suppose we&#8217;re going to see a lot of stories like this in the coming months, and most of them will be untrue. I worked for a lot of people I didn&#8217;t like in the Army, but they all got my respect and courtesy.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows how I feel about Obama, but I&#8217;d be offended if any group of troops from any branch of service ever showed him any disrespect while he&#8217;s in office. It&#8217;s not their place to express political opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some bloggers (who shall remain nameless) have been crowing that the Marines in Hawaii snubbed Barack &hellip; <a title=\"Reading too much into it\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=6520\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading too much into it<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520","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=6520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}