{"id":74242,"date":"2017-08-26T14:01:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T18:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74242"},"modified":"2017-08-26T14:01:47","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T18:01:47","slug":"mattis-to-the-troops-hold-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74242","title":{"rendered":"Mattis to the troops: Hold the line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55287\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55287\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/James-Mattis1-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-55287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/James-Mattis1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/James-Mattis1-494x333.jpg 494w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/James-Mattis1.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/348099-mattis-to-us-troops-hold-the-line-until-our-country-gets-back-to-respecting\">The Hill<\/a> quotes Secretary of Defense James Mattis speaking to the troops in an unknown location;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur country right now, it\u2019s got problems we don\u2019t have in the military,\u201d Mattis said. \u201cYou just hold the line until our country gets back to understanding and respecting each other and showing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mattis said the U.S. has \u201ctwo powers\u201d &#8211; \u201cinspiration\u201d and \u201cintimidation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got the power of intimidation, and that\u2019s you, if someone wants to screw with our families, our country and our allies,\u201d Mattis said. \u201cThe power of inspiration &#8211; [and] we\u2019ll get the power of inspiration back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also thanked the troops for their service and said he came out of retirement to \u201cserve alongside young people like you who are so selfless and, frankly, so rambunctious.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Problems we don&#8217;t have in the military&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill quotes Secretary of Defense James Mattis speaking to the troops in an unknown location; &hellip; <a title=\"Mattis to the troops: Hold the line\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74242\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mattis to the troops: Hold the line<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74242","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=74242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}