{"id":120729,"date":"2021-12-17T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120729"},"modified":"2021-12-17T12:06:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T17:06:08","slug":"a-little-leitmotif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=120729","title":{"rendered":"A Little Leitmotif&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-81136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day.jpg?resize=444%2C333&amp;ssl=1 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day.jpg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Smokey-on-Mothers-Day.jpg?w=639&amp;ssl=1 639w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s a few days until Christmas, I found the perfect gift for all those of you disgruntled souls snarking and grumbling over what is but a passing phase. When you watch this video, think of someone very special to whom it applies right now.<\/p>\n<p>Troops, I give you the late great Neil Innes and my favorite song of all those that he wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-DgIU4E9Mo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-DgIU4E9Mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas, and toast the bread on both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it\u2019s a few days until Christmas, I found the perfect gift for all those of you disgruntled souls snarking and grumbling over what is but a passing phase. When you watch this video, think of someone very special to whom it applies right now. Troops, I give you the late great Neil Innes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-2020-election"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-vpf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}