{"id":209,"date":"2004-09-13T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/patriotic-veteranism\/"},"modified":"2004-09-13T20:10:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T20:10:00","slug":"patriotic-veteranism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/patriotic-veteranism\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriotic Veteranism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.inreach.com\/chrisandjanet\/weblog\/flaglogo.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"But then again, I could be wrong...\" \/>I am so tired of all the Bush\/Kerry crap about military service and Vietnam. Who made up the rule that says a politician ought to be a veteran anyway, and better yet, a decorated one? Serving at all makes you a hero, but unless you have to hold up under torture or something, isn&#8217;t getting wounded just bad luck? Is it better to have a medal you didn&#8217;t <em>really<\/em> deserve, or no medal at all?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, did you know that some people consider Clinton to be a draft dodger?<\/p>\n<p>Now I know it ain&#8217;t patriotic, but I for one would think that if you&#8217;ve got it together enough to find yourself leading an advanced country of 300 million, you ought to be clever enough to find legally valid ways to avoid serving in a badly justified war. So I wish Bush would quit trying to deny one of the few things I actually respect him for having the sense to do.<\/p>\n<p>And if your daddy doesn&#8217;t have enough clout to help you get out of it, dodging your way into a Rhodes Scholarship to wait it out at Oxford will do just fine, thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so tired of all the Bush\/Kerry crap about military service and Vietnam. Who made up the rule that says a politician ought to be a veteran anyway, and better yet, a decorated one? Serving at all makes you a hero, but unless you have to hold up under torture or something, isn&#8217;t getting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/09\/13\/patriotic-veteranism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Patriotic Veteranism&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}