{"id":1661,"date":"2009-11-11T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T19:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2009-11-11T22:28:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T02:28:52","slug":"veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/veterans-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all of the veterans who fought for the freedom of the United States of America. I cannot imagine the bravery, selflessness or call to duty to which you committed yourself, and it is something that will forever move me.<\/p>\n<p>It is impossible to argue that I do not take for granted the freedom for which you have risked your life, for no amount of thanks or recognition that I or anyone else gives you could revive what you, your families and friends could have lost &#8211; your vigor &#8211; your pep &#8211; your esprit &#8211; your life &#8212; your love.<\/p>\n<p>My late grandfather, Clifton Francis Rogers, served for two years on the USS Rowan, landing in Nagasaki. Whether I was too young or it didn&#8217;t seem right, I never thanked him for serving, but his service was and continues to be one of the many things I admire about him.<\/p>\n<p>My uncle John Goebel served. Thank you, Uncle John, for your service.<\/p>\n<p>My uncle Guy Goebel served. Thank you, Uncle Guy, for your service.<\/p>\n<p>My uncle Jon Palomaki served. Thank you, Uncle Jon, for your service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to all of the veterans who fought for the freedom of the United States of America. I cannot imagine the bravery, selflessness or call to duty to which you committed yourself, and it is something that will forever move me. It is impossible to argue that I do not take for granted the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-our-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1661"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1677,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1661\/revisions\/1677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}