{"id":15930,"date":"2012-02-06T01:39:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T04:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=15930"},"modified":"2012-02-08T00:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T03:56:56","slug":"soldiers-get-super-bowl-monday-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/06\/soldiers-get-super-bowl-monday-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers Get Super Bowl Monday Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reported MajGen James McConville &#8212; &#8220;a Massachusetts native&#8221; &#8212; has declared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2012\/02\/ap-army-campbell-commander-gives-troops-day-off-020312\/\">Monday a day off for his soldiers<\/a>\u00a0so they can celebrate the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a video message posted on Facebook, Maj. Gen. James McConville of Quincy, Mass., said Monday would be a day of no scheduled activities in \u201crecognition of your outstanding performance during multiple combat deployments.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the same vein, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey posted an official video telling troops to enjoy the game &#8212; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodlive.mil\/index.php\/2012\/02\/chairmans-super-bowl-message\/\">declaring himself a Giants fan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is not unusual for members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/83491\/super-bowl-xlvi-sea\">military overseas<\/a> &#8212; where the Super Bowl may occur in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/83487\/camp-clark-dfac-pulls-out-all-stops-super-bowl-party\">middle of the night or on Monday<\/a> due to the time zones &#8212; to likewise get the day off.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/navy-islamic-helo-pilot-on-celebrating-ramadan\/\">noted previously<\/a>, religion isn&#8217;t the only &#8220;ideology&#8221; the military accommodates.\u00a0 Turns out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/83377\/thousands-miles-away-home-soldiers-celebrate-super-bowl-xlvi-war-zone\">football is accommodated<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reported MajGen James McConville &#8212; &#8220;a Massachusetts native&#8221; &#8212; has declared Monday a day off for his soldiers\u00a0so they can celebrate the Super Bowl. In a video message posted on Facebook, Maj. Gen. James McConville of Quincy, Mass., said Monday would be a day of no scheduled activities in \u201crecognition of your outstanding performance during multiple combat [&#8230;]<\/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":[956,2846,2,461,192],"class_list":["post-15930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-football","tag-james-mcconville","tag-military","tag-nfl","tag-super-bowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15930","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=15930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}