{"id":293,"date":"2009-11-12T06:02:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T06:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-11-12T06:02:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T06:02:50","slug":"v-is-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"v is for veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad was a WWII veteran. He served as a combat Marine. Fought in Okinawa and then was dispatched to Northern China for occupation duty. Chang Kai-shek became one of his heroes. I&#8217;ve heard his friends call him an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridinthewave.com\/thinkytees\/1stMarDiv.html\">Old Breed Marine<\/a>. He joined the Indiana National Guard in the 1960&#8217;s and served for 25 years. We buried him with military honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad was a WWII veteran. He served as a combat Marine. Fought in Okinawa and then was dispatched to Northern China for occupation duty. Chang Kai-shek became one of his heroes. I&#8217;ve heard his friends call him an Old Breed Marine. He joined the Indiana National Guard in the 1960&#8217;s and served for 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.proteanme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}