{"id":1123,"date":"2004-07-05T22:57:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-05T22:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2018-08-13T13:54:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:54:17","slug":"1123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/05\/1123\/","title":{"rendered":"Show of Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew Mexico&#8217;s armed force had automatic weapons?  Too bad all dozen and a half of its forces showed up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/world\/2663074\" target=\"_new\">and interrupted a Marine funeral for a Mexican-American<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mexican soldiers carrying automatic weapons interrupted the U.S. Independence Day funeral of a U.S. Marine and demanded that the Marine honor guard give up ceremonial replicas of rifles they carried. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of friends and relatives packed a small cemetery for the funeral on Sunday of 22-year-old Juan Lopez, who was born in this sun-scorched farming town, immigrated to Dalton, Georgia, as a teenager and became a Marine. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Message received, &#8220;allies&#8221;.  Hey, you guys remember when Mexico was a French possession?  Ain&#8217;t history fun?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew Mexico&#8217;s armed force had automatic weapons? Too bad all dozen and a half of its forces showed up and interrupted a Marine funeral for a Mexican-American: Mexican soldiers carrying automatic weapons interrupted the U.S. Independence Day funeral of a U.S. Marine and demanded that the Marine honor guard give up ceremonial replicas of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23110,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions\/23110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}