{"id":21309,"date":"2010-11-24T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T16:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21309"},"modified":"2010-11-24T12:50:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T16:50:26","slug":"canadian-families-plagued-by-fake-casualty-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21309","title":{"rendered":"Canadian families plagued by fake casualty calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/news\/Soldiers+families+fake+death+calls\/3874693\/story.html\">Montreal Gazette<\/a> reports that some soldiers&#8217; families are receiving phone calls falsely informing them of their soldiers&#8217; death;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of National Defence said the prank is not something it has ever dealt with before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are not aware of other similar incidents,&#8221; spokesman Major Martell Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Forces are baffled at someone showing so little respect for the families of soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s pretty low. I can think of a lot of things one can do to voice their discontent with the mission and this would not have made my list of what people would do,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This does not fit into what a normal human being would do to another.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope they catch the little weasel and cut his nuts off. If he has any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Montreal Gazette reports that some soldiers&#8217; families are receiving phone calls falsely informing them of their soldiers&#8217; death; The Department of National Defence said the prank is not something it has ever dealt with before. &#8220;We are not aware of other similar incidents,&#8221; spokesman Major Martell Thompson said. He said the Forces are baffled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-5xH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}