{"id":78671,"date":"2018-04-03T08:59:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78671"},"modified":"2018-04-03T08:59:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T12:59:54","slug":"uss-little-rock-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78671","title":{"rendered":"USS Little Rock comes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77271\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77271\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/USS-Little-Rock-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/USS-Little-Rock-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/USS-Little-Rock-434x333.jpg 434w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/USS-Little-Rock.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Because no one in the Navy is familiar with winter months and the effect those months have on the Saint Lawrence Seaway, USS Little Rock had to spend the season in Montreal when the Seaway, for some odd reason, froze over after the christening ceremony for the ship in Buffalo last December.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Nature finally allowed the littoral combat ship through to return to Naval Station Mayport, Florida according to <a href=\"http:\/\/gcaptain.com\/uss-little-rock-departs-montreal-after-3-months-stuck-in-ice\/\">reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>USS Little Rock is the 11th littoral combat ship (LCS) to be delivered to the Navy and the fifth of the Freedom variant to join the fleet. The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the vessel during a ceremony on September 25, 2017 at the Fincantieri\u2019s Marinette Marine (FMM) shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, where the Freedom variant ships are built.<\/p>\n<p>Little Rock\u2019s departure from Montreal comes just a few days after the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway\u2019s navigation season.<\/p>\n<p>She is expected to arrive in Florida next month after making several port visits along the way. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because no one in the Navy is familiar with winter months and the effect those months &hellip; <a title=\"USS Little Rock comes home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78671\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USS Little Rock comes home<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78671","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=78671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}