{"id":8375,"date":"2010-11-10T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2016-10-09T06:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T11:58:57","slug":"happy-birthday-to-the-usmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/10\/happy-birthday-to-the-usmc\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to the USMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of the United States Marines.  As some of you know, some of my favorite people in the world were Marines.<\/p>\n<p>My mother:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/Mom.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>(Read here eulogy <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/13\/eulogy\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>My father (he was born on November 10; his fate was cast for him).<\/p>\n<p>My brother (the recruiter promised to get him into Recon if he signed up right away for six years; who knew recruiters made promises they couldn&#8217;t keep?).<\/p>\n<p>(Me, I&#8217;m the one who went to college.)<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather (wounded on Okinawa; the Japanese got him right in the bulldog tattoo).<\/p>\n<p>Also, my great uncle Henry, whom I never knew but whose discharge papers I inherited.<\/p>\n<p>The Sniper, whose highest aspiration in life was <em>The Army<\/em> (says the guy who served without distinction for years amongst Jesuits and coeds), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesniper.us\/?p=7553\" target=\"_blank\">recognizes the occasion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the birthday of the United States Marines. As some of you know, some of my favorite people in the world were Marines. My mother: (Read here eulogy here.) My father (he was born on November 10; his fate was cast for him). My brother (the recruiter promised to get him into Recon if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375","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=8375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15719,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8375\/revisions\/15719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}