{"id":2562,"date":"2017-11-11T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2562"},"modified":"2017-11-11T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T16:26:58","slug":"a-very-brief-veterans-day-message-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2562","title":{"rendered":"A (Very Brief) Veterans&#8217; Day Message, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I haven&#8217;t yet joined any of the various Veterans&#8217; organizations, locally, since the move, I want to take a moment, (before 11:11 today), to THANK ALL of my brothers and sisters at arms who ever wore a uniform and survived.<\/p>\n<p>It may sound trite, but, there was a day when each of us &#8220;wrote a check payable to the United States of America for any amount, up to and including our lives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As for myself in regards to the oath I took all those years ago, I do NOT consider that check voided.<br \/>\nAs is true for so many of us, I stand ready, willing and (okay, a little less), ABLE to do it again. You&#8217;re WORTH IT, My Country T&#8217;is Of Thee, Sweet Land Of Liberty&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>So are all of those who wrote the same check and we cashed it.<\/p>\n<p>May G\/d Bless The United States of America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I haven&#8217;t yet joined any of the various Veterans&#8217; organizations, locally, since the move, I want to take a moment, (before 11:11 today), to THANK ALL of my brothers and sisters at arms who ever wore a uniform and survived. It may sound trite, but, there was a day when each of us &#8220;wrote<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/?p=2562\">Continue Reading&rsaquo;&rsaquo;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2562\/revisions\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politicalqrm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}