{"id":1481,"date":"2004-09-20T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2018-08-01T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T16:30:48","slug":"1481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/20\/1481\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring The Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so with someone to politicize the dead&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/weill05222004.html\" target=\"_new\">especially her son<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seth, 24, was in debt after he graduated from Rutgers University in 2002. He joined the army for money and skills that, he was told, would help land him a job with the CIA or FBI &#8212; his dream jobs. &#8220;Not for patriotism,&#8221; said his mother, Sue Niederer, who is now an anti-war activist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congratulations, mudder, you have just called your son a calculating mercenary who went into the military only for money and job experience.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh, I hope my mother doesn&#8217;t affront me when eulogizing me.  But she&#8217;s a Marine, so (aside from that) she&#8217;s got some sense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so with someone to politicize the dead&#8211;especially her son: Seth, 24, was in debt after he graduated from Rutgers University in 2002. He joined the army for money and skills that, he was told, would help land him a job with the CIA or FBI &#8212; his dream jobs. &#8220;Not for patriotism,&#8221; said his [&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-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","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=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21074,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/21074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}