{"id":20099,"date":"2012-11-15T02:11:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T05:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=20099"},"modified":"2012-11-15T02:11:40","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T05:11:40","slug":"join-the-military-see-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/15\/join-the-military-see-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Join the Military, See the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Soldiers got to visit Japan after their deployed exercise to the nation\u00a0ended.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a good time for Soldiers because the Japanese culture is very different from the USA,&#8221; said Sgt. 1st Class Kiyome Yoshida&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As many Americans find out when they travel to foreign lands, exposure to foreign culture is often, by definition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/90754\/Soldiers_experience_Japanese_culture\/\">exposure to that culture&#8217;s religion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While in Kyoto they were given the opportunity to <!--more-->explore Heian Shrine and Kiyomizu Temple as well as the shops and restaurants among the scenic winding streets of Kyoto.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exposure to, and understanding of, religion is a virtue, particularly in a globally-deployed military.\u00a0 Fortunately, the US military generally places a high value on religious liberty, encouraging troops to practice their own faiths and, as shown here, to learn about others&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Soldiers got to visit Japan after their deployed exercise to the nation\u00a0ended. &#8220;It&#8217;s a good time for Soldiers because the Japanese culture is very different from the USA,&#8221; said Sgt. 1st Class Kiyome Yoshida&#8230; As many Americans find out when they travel to foreign lands, exposure to foreign culture is often, by definition, exposure to that culture&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3679,1263,3680,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-20099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-heian-shrine","tag-japan","tag-kiyomizu-temple","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099","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=20099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}