{"id":21606,"date":"2010-12-22T10:06:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21606"},"modified":"2010-12-22T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:06:55","slug":"someone-you-kinda-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21606","title":{"rendered":"Someone You Kinda Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday  in a very small combat outpost in Afghanistan the theater commander took time to pin a Bronze Star W\/V Device and Purple Heart on a young NCO that I know very well; like the day he was born!<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas all.  While neither of mine can be home this year, this photo made my holidays.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/strick.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/strick-300x277.jpg?resize=300%2C277\" alt=\"\" title=\"strick\" width=\"300\" height=\"277\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/strick.jpg?resize=300%2C277&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/strick.jpg?w=374&amp;ssl=1 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday in a very small combat outpost in Afghanistan the theater commander took time to pin a Bronze Star W\/V Device and Purple Heart on a young NCO that I know very well; like the day he was born! Merry Christmas all. While neither of mine can be home this year, this photo made my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-5Cu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}