{"id":77459,"date":"2018-02-01T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77459"},"modified":"2018-02-01T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T14:07:16","slug":"goodell-nfl-has-already-done-enough-to-honor-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77459","title":{"rendered":"Goodell: NFL has already done enough to honor veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77460\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77460\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/please-stand-amvets-super-bowl-ad-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/please-stand-amvets-super-bowl-ad-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/please-stand-amvets-super-bowl-ad-258x333.jpg 258w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/please-stand-amvets-super-bowl-ad.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/26597\/roger-goodell-defends-decision-ban-amvets-super-emily-zanotti\">Daily Wire <\/a>reports that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell explained that the reason the NFL rejected the AMVET ad entitled #Please Stand that we talked about last week, because they&#8217;ve done enough to honor vets. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s not an indication of any lack of support,\u201d Goodell told media after being questioned about the AMVETS ad. \u201cWe have a VFW ad that talks about, celebrates the important work that our veterans are doing, and of course you all know we\u2019re going to have 15 Medal of Honor winners that we\u2019re bringing together at the Super Bowl, which I think is the largest number of Medal of Honor winners ever brought together at any event other than their annual national gathering.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what a &#8220;Medal of Honor winner&#8221; is, but apparently their presence is good enough to make up for the sad spectacle that the NFL has become in the last year or so. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Wire reports that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell explained that the reason the NFL rejected &hellip; <a title=\"Goodell: NFL has already done enough to honor veterans\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77459\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodell: NFL has already done enough to honor veterans<\/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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77459","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=77459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}