{"id":3984,"date":"2010-11-11T07:57:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T12:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2010-11-11T07:57:45","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T12:57:45","slug":"my-own-bit-of-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=3984","title":{"rendered":"My own bit of stolen valor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through the parking lot of a WalMart one day last year, a woman parked her car and left it running, an old gentleman sitting in the passenger seat. <\/p>\n<p>He looked like he was having a bad day. His newer jacket was covered with old patches, lovingly resewn, and he had a hat with a military insignia I didn&#8217;t recognize. <\/p>\n<p>If I had to guess it was a woman taking her father for his day out of the home- or maybe picking up his meds.<\/p>\n<p>I got his attention, and though I am a career civillian, I gave him the snappiest salute I could muster. <\/p>\n<p>He smiled. he straightened up in his seat a bit and adjusted hs jacket, and returned the salute. <\/p>\n<p>I have mixed feelings, even now, about saluting, not having ever served I technically don&#8217;t qualify to do even that- but it clearly improved his day, and if I can do that for him, it was, to me, worth it. <\/p>\n<p>For all of those who served, the very best thanks I can give you is to try to live my life well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through the parking lot of a WalMart one day last year, a woman parked her car and left it running, an old gentleman sitting in the passenger seat. He looked like he was having a bad day. His newer jacket was covered with old patches, lovingly resewn, and he had a hat with a [&hellip;]<\/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-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}