{"id":3807,"date":"2012-05-28T16:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T23:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2012-05-28T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T23:33:55","slug":"memorial-day-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/memorial-day-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/make-memorial-day-personal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/gg-larue.jpg\" alt=\"Headstone of Lt. LaRue\" width=300 \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s Memorial Day again and for many people that means it&#8217;s time to roll out the old grill, have some time with friends and family, and start summer.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s not what the holiday was intended to do, but I suppose it&#8217;s OK. If you read this blog with any regularity, you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m not a flag waver. I speak my mind on a number of topics that at various times can rub conservatives and liberals the wrong way.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne thing I&#8217;ve become ever more thankful for as I grow older is freedom. And by that, I mean the ability to say what I want, when I want, with no fear of repercussion other than the anger of some group offended by my comments. That&#8217;s a privilege and it&#8217;s not accorded to all people on the earth. It&#8217;s a privilege that was established and secured with blood.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThank you to everyone who has served in our Armed Forces for your gift to the rest of us. And a particularly solemn and heartfelt thank you to those who died while serving and to their families. <a href=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/make-memorial-day-personal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a personal story written in 2008 to remind us of sacrifice from World War II<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s Memorial Day again and for many people that means it&#8217;s time to roll out the old grill, have some time with friends and family, and start summer. That&#8217;s not what the holiday was intended to do, but I suppose it&#8217;s OK. If you read this blog with any regularity, you&#8217;ll know I&#8217;m not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3807"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3807\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}