{"id":1052,"date":"2011-05-30T16:10:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2011-11-13T20:40:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:40:29","slug":"memorial-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1052","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite blogs has apparently died.<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m proud to be Belgian<\/a> (i.e., one-quarter Belgian, through my maternal grandfather, who fought in WWII and received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He died when I was seven or eight. According to family members he was a very different man after the war than he was before.)<\/p>\n

Three genuine war heroes<\/a>: Smedley Butler, Hugh Thompson, and Bradley Manning.<\/p>\n

“We’re All Victims of the System”<\/a><\/p>\n

“Buy a gun. Get a dog.”<\/a> And close down all the prisons. The world would be a better and safer place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite blogs has apparently died. I’m proud to be Belgian (i.e., one-quarter Belgian, through my maternal grandfather, who fought in WWII and received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. He died when I was seven or eight. According to family members he was a very different man after the war than he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,166,152,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bradley-manning","category-hugh-thompson","category-matt-brown","category-smedley-butler"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}