{"id":5011,"date":"2013-05-27T00:42:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T05:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2020-02-17T09:46:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:46:17","slug":"memorial-day-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=5011","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day is important."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will be brief today. For the first time in almost 20 years I will not be at the cemetery to honor my comrades. My knee just can&#8217;t take the hobble after the surgery. And consequently I will not be speaking to the crowd for the first time in over five years at Resurrection Cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>That makes me a bit sad. I love and cherish my comrades, known and unknown, who gave their all to keep me free. I honor them no less due to my physical condition, but today I must do it from my home.<\/p>\n<p>Please take some time today to honor the men and women who gave their lives to keep us ensconced in freedom. They paid a heavy price. Do not let it be in vain. Fight for your rights. Fight tyranny. Fight oppression. Fight injustice.<\/p>\n<p>And remember them today.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be brief today. For the first time in almost 20 years I will not be at the cemetery to honor my comrades. My knee just can&#8217;t take the hobble after the surgery. And consequently I will not be <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=5011\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,5,1],"tags":[167,1953,185,1538,162,569,571,1954],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-sincere-stuff","category-uncategorized","tag-commotion-in-the-pews","tag-fallen-comrades","tag-freedom","tag-honor","tag-joseph-courtemanche","tag-memorial-day","tag-resurrection-cemetery","tag-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12246,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions\/12246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}