{"id":1905,"date":"2010-11-11T11:53:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T19:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T21:18:08","slug":"thank-you-to-our-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/thank-you-to-our-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you to our Veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Veterans-Day-2009.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1906\" title=\"Veterans-Day-2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Veterans-Day-2009-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Veterans-Day-2009-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Veterans-Day-2009.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>My father was a veteran and I remember when my sister and I were growing up, he used to tell us stories about the war and his time in a Russian prison camp, and I never really understood how much he gave up. \u00a0To be honest, I used to roll my eyes, thinking, &#8220;Here we go again.&#8221; But I was just a kid. Today, I&#8217;d give anything to hear those stories again &#8211; and to tell my dad how proud I am of his service to his country. \u00a0My stepmon&#8217;s husband was also a veteran, may he rest in peace. This is our day to honor and respect all of our veterans for the sacrifices they have made for their country.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; John Fitzgerald Kennedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father was a veteran and I remember when my sister and I were growing up, he used to tell us stories about the war and his time in a Russian prison camp, and I never really understood how much he gave up. \u00a0To be honest, I used to roll my eyes, thinking, &#8220;Here we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}