{"id":162,"date":"2011-05-30T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2021-01-08T18:35:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T02:35:01","slug":"happy-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/05\/30\/happy-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ghV22ay7A48\/TePNfzAI1pI\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/BfJxX4GYFiY\/s1600\/american_flag-971804.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ghV22ay7A48\/TePNfzAI1pI\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/BfJxX4GYFiY\/s320\/american_flag-971804.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Good morning!<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you all have a great memorial day<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re enjoying the day with your family don&#8217;t forget that the point of the day is to remember the ultimate sacrifice many of our military Men and Women have made to insure our freedom.<\/p>\n<p>If you know a veteran, or an active duty soldier, Give them a big hug and say thank you.<\/p>\n<p>These folks may be dealing with grief remembering missing friends. They may be a little sad but would probably appreciate being reached out to.<br \/>\nInvite them to join you for your BBQ.<\/p>\n<p>If you know of a military family having a hard time, invite them to join you as well.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jXzvqKw5XL0\/TePNgWyo33I\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/0NVzvVgODpE\/s1600\/MilitaryLogos1_A_Tribute_to_all_United_States_Armed_Forces-s550x644-36124-580.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-jXzvqKw5XL0\/TePNgWyo33I\/AAAAAAAAAqw\/0NVzvVgODpE\/s1600\/MilitaryLogos1_A_Tribute_to_all_United_States_Armed_Forces-s550x644-36124-580.gif\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Often, the families of deployed soldiers have it really tough. Not only is their family member not home, but sometimes it&#8217;s hard for them to make ends meet. (<em>there&#8217;s another whole blog post in that statement, but this isn&#8217;t the appropriate time<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>To any veterans reading this.<\/p>\n<p>I remember each of my friends who are no longer with us. They live on in my memory, the lessons they taught me, and in the many lives that they touched. I miss them and will raise a glass to them later today.<\/p>\n<p>Peace guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! I hope that you all have a great memorial day While you&#8217;re enjoying the day with your family don&#8217;t forget that the point of the day is to remember the ultimate sacrifice many of our military Men and Women have made to insure our freedom. If you know a veteran, or an active &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2011\/05\/30\/happy-memorial-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Memorial Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10429,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/10429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}