{"id":1861,"date":"2013-06-07T12:24:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T16:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2013-06-11T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T19:51:36","slug":"a-soldiers-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1861","title":{"rendered":"a soldier\u2019s birthday . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen will we ever get wise to the debt we owe the men and women of the military? When will we ever learn to pray for them every day? We do not deserve such fine people.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Ben Stein<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My nephew is not here for his birthday today. He\u2019s in Jordan, or Kuwait, or Afghanistan \u2014 I don\u2019t even know exactly where, but someplace dangerous and probably very, very hot. <\/p>\n<p>Celebrate the day, Josh, if you can.<br \/>\nServe well. Be safe. Return home.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Josh_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Josh_2013.jpg\" title=\"Happy Birthday to Josh!\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Josh_2013.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Josh_2013-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 218px; margin-bottom: 22px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen will we ever get wise to the debt we owe the men and women of the military? When will we ever learn to pray for them every day? We do not deserve such fine people.\u201d \u2014 Ben Stein My nephew is not here for his birthday today. He\u2019s in Jordan, or Kuwait, or Afghanistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}