{"id":37411,"date":"2016-11-11T00:30:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=37411"},"modified":"2016-11-10T22:53:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:53:02","slug":"veterans-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/veterans-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some may have forgotten that Veterans&#8217; Day actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/vetsday\/vetdayhistory.asp\">began as Armistice Day<\/a>, commemorating the end of the Great War\u00a0on 11 November 1918.\u00a0 Through the years it developed a meaning for all veterans, though it continues to recall the cost of The Great War.<\/p>\n<p>Right now\u00a0thousands of US troops are stationed around the world in support of the nation&#8217;s mission.\u00a0 Many more have returned home from war <!--more-->affected physically or mentally as a result.<\/p>\n<p>They have gone because their country bid them to go.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how you feel about politics or even the wars in Iraq, Syria,\u00a0Afghanistan, or elsewhere, thank a veteran for the sacrifices they&#8217;ve made.\u00a0 Whether you appreciate it or not, they make those sacrifices for you.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/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-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some may have forgotten that Veterans&#8217; Day actually began as Armistice Day, commemorating the end of the Great War\u00a0on 11 November 1918.\u00a0 Through the years it developed a meaning for all veterans, though it continues to recall the cost of The Great War. Right now\u00a0thousands of US troops are stationed around the world in support of the nation&#8217;s mission.\u00a0 Many [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2,2408],"class_list":["post-37411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-military","tag-veterans-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37411","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=37411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}