{"id":80942,"date":"2018-08-02T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T16:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80942"},"modified":"2018-08-02T11:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:12:05","slug":"knock-yourselves-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80942","title":{"rendered":"Knock Yourselves Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cheers - Tip O&#039;Neil\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_96Wf-DZKHg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><template data-arve_cachetime=\"2026-01-14T10:14:26-05:00\" data-arve_iframe_src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_96Wf-DZKHg?feature=oembed\" data-arve_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_96Wf-DZKHg\" data-author_name=\"MyyyClips\" data-author_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@MyyyClips\" data-height=\"375\" data-provider=\"youtube\" data-provider_name=\"YouTube\" data-provider_url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" data-thumbnail_height=\"360\" data-thumbnail_url=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/_96Wf-DZKHg\/hqdefault.jpg\" data-thumbnail_width=\"480\" data-title=\"Cheers - Tip O&apos;Neil\" data-type=\"video\" data-version=\"1.0\" data-width=\"500\" class=\"arve-data\"><\/template><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little-known fact: This Ain&#8217;t Hell is put together by a live, online bunch of veterans, active duty peeps, and civilians.<\/p>\n<p>It was one of those places everybody went to.<\/p>\n<p>The people were familiar. You didn\u2019t have to say a word. You could just sit there and take it in or go shoot pool, or hit on that silly WAVE sitting up there at the bar, trying to make notes on sea stories.<\/p>\n<p>It was the &#8220;EM&#8221; club or the &#8220;O&#8221; club or whatever watering hole there was close by, on or off base, or on some street in Boston or North Chicago or San Diego or Pensacola or Rantoul or Rosie\u2019s in Subic Bay or Tommy\u2019s Bar on Tu Do Street in Saigon.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s still there. You\u2019re still sitting there, taking it in. You can pipe up, or sit back and absorb the clatter of conversation around you. The pool table may be in the basement. The drinks may come out of your fridge or your coffeemaker. The chitchat may be by osmosis or online, but you still want to go there\u2026 because everybody knows your name\u2026 and someone will always listen to you.<\/p>\n<p>The bar stays open until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>Sea stories or war stories or just \u2018No, shit, I was there\u2019 stories all belong here. The bumpers on the pool table were just repadded and those cracked cue balls replaced, along with the cue sticks I broke when I dropped one &#8211; er, two of them.<\/p>\n<p>You may notice a new screen here and there. Just a tad\u2019s worth of remodeling. It&#8217;s probably why 2\/17 Air Cav said the place doesn&#8217;t look quite the same as it did. Well, it&#8217;s still the same old place, but with small changes. Now, we did take out the padded booths and put in a few more tables, plus some new pictures, but it&#8217;s still the place where everybody knows your name.<\/p>\n<p>You can sit at a table and shoot the bull with a couple of deck apes or sit at the bar and rag on about last week and those practice jumps and how your pack was overstuffed, or the shortage of staples and paper clips had everybody up in arms, never mind the lack of coffee grounds. And there is always someone who just has to be a horse&#8217;s butt.<\/p>\n<p>The bar stays open. Someone is always listening.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening, SFC Jonn Lilyea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The clip from &#8220;Cheers&#8221; is the opener from the 1982 episode with the late Tip O&#8217;Neill, in person. Paramount Studios production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a little-known fact: This Ain&#8217;t Hell is put together by a live, online bunch &hellip; <a title=\"Knock Yourselves Out\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80942\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Knock Yourselves Out<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80942","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88283,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80942\/revisions\/88283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}