{"id":5552,"date":"2010-05-25T00:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T08:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2010-05-24T21:22:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T05:22:29","slug":"traditions-change-at-us-naval-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/traditions-change-at-us-naval-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditions Change at US Naval Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Herndon Monument climb, a tradition\u00a0over which the outgoing superintendent of the US Naval Academy Vice Adm Jeffrey Fowler had <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/13\/usna-superintendent-wants-to-end-cadet-tradition\/\">already expressed displeasure<\/a>, was done without the lard and water-spraying of previous years.\u00a0 As a result, the first year midshipmen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2010\/05\/navy_herndon_unlarded_052410w\/\">managed a near-record time of 2 minutes and 5 seconds<\/a>, as opposed to the more average time of 2 hours or more.<\/p>\n<p>This was not the first time for either the absence of water (banned last year) or a slicked up monument, though it has been decades since the plebes scaled the obelisk without the challenge of lard.<\/p>\n<p>The change was reportedly &#8220;to improve the safety of the event.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Naval Academy <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/25\/us-military-academy-graduations\/\">graduation is this Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Herndon Monument climb, a tradition\u00a0over which the outgoing superintendent of the US Naval Academy Vice Adm Jeffrey Fowler had already expressed displeasure, was done without the lard and water-spraying of previous years.\u00a0 As a result, the first year midshipmen managed a near-record time of 2 minutes and 5 seconds, as opposed to the more average time of 2 hours [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[552,2,124,40,473],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-academies","tag-herndon-monument","tag-military","tag-military-academy","tag-tradition","tag-usna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","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=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}