{"id":29829,"date":"2012-05-05T18:17:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29829"},"modified":"2012-05-05T18:17:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T22:17:38","slug":"not-smiling-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29829","title":{"rendered":"Not smiling Now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I found a group called <a href=\"http:\/\/ourjourneytosmile.com\/blog\/\">Journey to Smiles<\/a>. I have<a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22641\">written about them<\/a>  and how they seem to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VcDJr5pEAFk\">happy and cheerful<\/a>. Well not so much now. I guess it is hard when you have to deal with reality rather then living in never land. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qmQpUIYpaZE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On and it seems that they have a video that claimed that they are still playing the tool for groups like Rethink Afghanistan with videos like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wQO-LT1W0aQ\">this.<\/a> Yea when I first read about them they seemed misguided but their hearts in the right place, now they are just a political tool that will be thrown away when their use is done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago I found a group called Journey to Smiles. I havewritten about them and how they seem to be happy and cheerful. Well not so much now. I guess it is hard when you have to deal with reality rather then living in never land. On and it seems that they have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-7L7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29829","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}