{"id":30700,"date":"2012-07-09T16:44:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T20:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30700"},"modified":"2012-07-09T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T21:09:38","slug":"dog-tags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30700","title":{"rendered":"Dog Tags&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t make a habit of posting here unless I can\u00a0 find something humorous to lighten the place up&#8230;. this may get deleted?<\/p>\n<p>A pal of mine on FB offered this pix with a question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tags.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-30701\" title=\"tags\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tags-278x300.jpg?resize=278%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tags.jpg?resize=278%2C300&amp;ssl=1 278w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/tags.jpg?w=713&amp;ssl=1 713w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How many know what the notch is for?<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t stand it&#8230; I was certain I knew, but there is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogtagsrus.com\/dog%20tag%20notch.htm\" target=\"_blank\">alternative explanation <\/a>I can not ignore. For 40 years I believed this:<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;notch&#8221; was\u00a0 a\u00a0<em>&#8220;tooth notch&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0for placing the dog tag between the teeth of a deceased soldier.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;notch&#8221; was\u00a0 an aid to\u00a0<em>&#8220;start&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0the dog tag between the teeth when you\u00a0<em>&#8220;kicked&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0the tag into place on a deceased soldier.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t make a habit of posting here unless I can\u00a0 find something humorous to lighten the place up&#8230;. this may get deleted? A pal of mine on FB offered this pix with a question. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; How many know what the notch is for? Can&#8217;t stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-7Za","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30700","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}