{"id":50616,"date":"2014-06-11T17:58:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T21:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50616"},"modified":"2014-06-11T19:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T23:11:05","slug":"it-is-only-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50616","title":{"rendered":"It Is Only History."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.<br \/>\nGeorge Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago we did our duty, came home, and watched as Saigon fell. Some were still there.<\/p>\n<p>History seems to be repeating itself yet again.<\/p>\n<p>In Iraq cities are falling not unlike they did back then. Most recent updates suggest that Baghdad is next.<\/p>\n<p>Small positive thing. The folks that went into Iraq didn&#8217;t get spit at\/on when they came home.\u00a0 The rest remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 &#8212; Many years ago we did our duty, came home, and watched as Saigon fell. Some were still there. History seems to be repeating itself yet again. In Iraq cities are falling not unlike they [&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-50616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-dao","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50616","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=50616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}