{"id":35122,"date":"2016-05-19T00:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=35122"},"modified":"2016-11-24T21:36:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T00:36:58","slug":"cross-highlights-international-military-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/cross-highlights-international-military-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross Highlights International Military Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/china-us-generals-to-work-out-mechanism-for-south-china-sea-1.409357\">article<\/a> about the tensions between China and the United States had an interesting photo as a lead in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/china-us-generals-to-work-out-mechanism-for-south-china-sea-1.409357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35123\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/philcross.jpg\" alt=\"philcross\" width=\"804\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/philcross.jpg 804w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/philcross-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/philcross-768x298.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/><\/a>At least one cross, with a second cresting the hill in the background.\u00a0 The caption for the photograph doesn&#8217;t say what the crosses are, just that the photo <!--more-->is of a military exercise:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Philippine troops man their positions on top of a hill during joint U.S.-Philippines military exercises at <strong>Crow Valley, Philippines<\/strong>, April 14, 2016. With tensions rising in the South China Sea, The Pentagon said that nearly 300 American troops will remain in the Philippines through the end of the month following annual war games that ended Friday.<br \/>\nBullit Marquez\/AP<\/p><\/blockquote>\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>An Associated Press article about the tensions between China and the United States had an interesting photo as a lead in: At least one cross, with a second cresting the hill in the background.\u00a0 The caption for the photograph doesn&#8217;t say what the crosses are, just that the photo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[908,162,5601,2,2369],"class_list":["post-35122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-china","tag-cross","tag-crow-valley","tag-military","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35122","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=35122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}