{"id":429,"date":"2011-11-10T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-11-10T10:51:43","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T18:51:43","slug":"november-rain-of-gratitude-day-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"November Rain of Gratitude &#8211; Day 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you express gratitude to something as vast, complex, and loyal as the United States Marine Corps?  For 236 years you have been a watchdog for watchdogs.  You helped make the signing of the Declaration of Independence possible.  You&#8217;ve provided protection when we needed it, and even when we didn&#8217;t know we needed it.  To this day, around the world, your ambassadors still carry the pride, honor, and code of the USMC&#8230; and of being true bad-asses.  I, and every person of this beautifully imperfect nation, would like to express our gratitude for everything you&#8217;ve done up to this point, and kindly thank you in advance for keeping us safe so we can buy video games and pretend we&#8217;re you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you express gratitude to something as vast, complex, and loyal as the United States Marine Corps? For 236 years you have been a watchdog for watchdogs. You helped make the signing of the Declaration of Independence possible. You&#8217;ve provided protection when we needed it, and even when we didn&#8217;t know we needed it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novemberrainofgratitude"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/JamesSilverman_NovGrat10_marines.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}