{"id":31592,"date":"2015-06-03T00:15:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T03:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31592"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:05:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:05:54","slug":"reporter-documents-academy-graduation-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/03\/reporter-documents-academy-graduation-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter Documents Academy Graduation Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Prudente of the Capital Gazette <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitalgazette.com\/ph-ac-cn-usna-graduation-sidebar-0523-20150522,0,7309989.story\">wrote a short piece<\/a> on the traditional hat toss that accompanies the graduation of each of the US service academies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the seats, children fidgeted because where else can an 8-year-old boy score $20 and a military hat, maybe as many as he can carry&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>Many midshipmen tucked $20 and 15 cents for the Class of 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This and other traditions have been noted here before, including the veritable plethora of traditions from a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/27\/veritable-cornucopia-of-usafa-traditions-on-display\/\">single photo<\/a> during an Air Force Academy graduation in 2010.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Prudente of the Capital Gazette wrote a short piece on the traditional hat toss that accompanies the graduation of each of the US service academies: In the seats, children fidgeted because where else can an 8-year-old boy score $20 and a military hat, maybe as many as he can carry&#8230;? Many midshipmen tucked $20 and 15 cents for the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[133,2,124,36,40,65],"class_list":["post-31592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-annapolis","tag-military","tag-military-academy","tag-navy","tag-tradition","tag-usafa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31592","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=31592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}