{"id":70870,"date":"2017-03-15T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70870"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:10:10","slug":"west-palm-beach-va-hospital-wont-hang-trump-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70870","title":{"rendered":"West Palm Beach VA hospital won&#8217;t hang Trump portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=70871\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-70871\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mast-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-70871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mast-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mast-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mast-500x279.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Mast.jpg 943w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Everyone who has been in the military knows how important it is to have the correct portrait of their commander-in-chief hanging in the orderly room. Your First Sergeant impressed that upon you. That&#8217;s why veterans at the West Palm Beach VA hospital told their Congressman, Brian Mast, a disabled, wounded veteran himself, that hospital didn&#8217;t have President Trump&#8217;s portrait  hanging in the empty space at their entrance. <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/portraits-of-president-trump-sec-of-va-taken-down-from-local-va-center\">CBS12<\/a> link;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Congressman Brian Mast, himself a veteran, brought the men and the portraits to the facility and demanded they be installed. The whole thing was caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p>This video shows first term Congressman Brian Mast and a group of veterans taking action.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two blank holes, it&#8217;s been 60 something days now,&#8221; said Veteran John Rourke. &#8220;The veterans administration has been asked about it a few times, the local VA hospital has and they haven&#8217;t had any real reason other than they didn&#8217;t have the picture, which is readily available.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The VA officials took the portrait down after the congressman left;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A VA spokeswoman tells CBS 12 News , the congressman\u2019s actions and the actions of the veterans who accompanied him were \u201cinappropriate\u201d and the cell phone video was not legally obtained. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who has been in the military knows how important it is to have the correct &hellip; <a title=\"West Palm Beach VA hospital won&#8217;t hang Trump portrait\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70870\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">West Palm Beach VA hospital won&#8217;t hang Trump portrait<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70870","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=70870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}