{"id":11720,"date":"2011-07-06T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11720"},"modified":"2011-07-06T01:17:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T06:17:13","slug":"marines-issue-private-protective-gear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/06\/marines-issue-private-protective-gear\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines Issue Private Protective Gear. Literally."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So goes the legend, pilots in World War II used to sit on their body armor\u00a0to protect the family jewels from fire from below.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the military is thinking that way now as well.\u00a0 US Marines have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/blogs\/stripes-central\/stripes-central-1.8040\/marines-in-afghanistan-get-ballistic-underwear-1.147318\">issued ballistic boxers<\/a> in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So goes the legend, pilots in World War II used to sit on their body armor\u00a0to protect the family jewels from fire from below. Apparently, the military is thinking that way now as well.\u00a0 US Marines have been issued ballistic boxers in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[58,1892,5285,1893,149,2,1894,123],"class_list":["post-11720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-afghanistan","tag-boxers","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-kevlar","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-underwear","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}