{"id":53775,"date":"2014-07-12T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T20:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53775"},"modified":"2014-07-12T16:57:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T20:57:56","slug":"weekend-open-thread-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53775","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I just got an advanced copy of Bing West&#8217;s latest book &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-Million-Steps-Marine-Platoon-ebook\/dp\/B00JCSCXS8\">One Million Steps; A Marine Platoon at War<\/a>&#8221; in the mail, so I&#8217;m going to need some reading time. Keep yourselves busy with a late weekend open thread.<\/p>\n<p>Here, this is from Chief Shipley on Facebook;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=53777\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53777\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown-240x300.jpg?resize=240%2C300\" alt=\"Richard Brown\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown.jpg?resize=267%2C333&amp;ssl=1 267w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown.jpg?w=771&amp;ssl=1 771w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=53778\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53778\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown1-168x300.jpg?resize=168%2C300\" alt=\"Richard Brown1\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown1.jpg?resize=168%2C300&amp;ssl=1 168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown1.jpg?resize=187%2C333&amp;ssl=1 187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown1.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=53779\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53779\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown2-168x300.jpg?resize=168%2C300\" alt=\"Richard Brown2\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown2.jpg?resize=168%2C300&amp;ssl=1 168w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown2.jpg?resize=187%2C333&amp;ssl=1 187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown2.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=53780\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53780\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown3-300x169.jpg?resize=300%2C169\" alt=\"Richard Brown3\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-53780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown3.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown3.jpg?resize=500%2C283&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown3.jpg?w=597&amp;ssl=1 597w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I just got an advanced copy of Bing West&#8217;s latest book &#8220;One Million Steps; A Marine Platoon at War&#8221; in the mail, so I&#8217;m going to need some reading time. Keep yourselves busy with a late weekend open thread. Here, this is from Chief Shipley on Facebook;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Richard-Brown.jpg?fit=771%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-dZl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53775","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=53775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}