{"id":6257,"date":"2013-11-11T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=6257"},"modified":"2013-11-11T06:49:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T11:49:53","slug":"thank-a-veteran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=6257","title":{"rendered":"Thank a Veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/American-Flag-2048x1536-iPad-wallpaper_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3202\" alt=\"American-Flag-2048x1536-iPad-wallpaper_1\" src=\"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/American-Flag-2048x1536-iPad-wallpaper_1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Yesterday, I discovered a very old photograph of my grandfather on my mother&#8217;s side.\u00a0 I do not know much about him and he passed away long ago.\u00a0 In the picture I found of him, he was in uniform. I had never seen the photograph before.\u00a0 He fought in the Pacific in World War II.\u00a0 And he was wearing sergeant stripes&#8230;\u00a0 I smiled and shared it with my wife.\u00a0 My dad was a Navy PO2 and his father was an infantry sergeant in WWI.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate their service and that of all our military veterans.\u00a0 We owe them all a great debt of gratitude on this Veterans Day.<\/p>\n<p>Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I discovered a very old photograph of my grandfather on my mother&#8217;s side.\u00a0 I do not know much about him and he passed away long ago.\u00a0 In the picture I found of him, he was in uniform. I had never seen the photograph before.\u00a0 He fought in the Pacific in World War II.\u00a0 And he was wearing sergeant stripes&#8230;\u00a0 I smiled and shared it with my wife.\u00a0 My dad was a Navy PO2 and his father was an infantry sergeant in WWI. I appreciate their service and that of all our military veterans.\u00a0 We owe them all a great debt of gratitude on this Veterans Day. Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p28xkp-1CV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6257"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6257\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}