{"id":76810,"date":"2017-12-29T12:54:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T17:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76810"},"modified":"2017-12-29T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T17:00:53","slug":"weekend-open-thread-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76810","title":{"rendered":"Weekend open thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/photography\/photo-of-the-day\/2017\/12\/flag-troops-patriotism\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76811\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/stripes-500x318.jpg?resize=500%2C318\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"318\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/stripes.jpg?resize=500%2C318&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/stripes.jpg?resize=300%2C191&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/stripes.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>December 29, 2017<\/p>\n<p>Earn Your Stripes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>During an NCAA game in Las Vegas, Nevada, airmen from nearby Nellis Air Force Base hold up an enormous American flag.<\/em><br \/>\nPhotograph By Kevin Tanenbaum, National Geographic Your Shot<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Hondo and Ex-PH2 for paying tribute to the tobacco gods this holiday season. I&#8217;ll see to it that they are sacrificed in the appropriate manner, as soon as the weather improves a few degrees above freezing in the coming year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 29, 2017 Earn Your Stripes During an NCAA game in Las Vegas, Nevada, airmen from nearby Nellis Air Force Base hold up an enormous American flag. Photograph By Kevin Tanenbaum, National Geographic Your Shot Thanks to Hondo and Ex-PH2 for paying tribute to the tobacco gods this holiday season. I&#8217;ll see to it that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76811,"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-76810","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\/2017\/12\/stripes.jpg?fit=640%2C407&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jYS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76810","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=76810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}