{"id":2557,"date":"2019-11-11T07:54:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T03:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2019-11-11T07:54:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T03:54:25","slug":"veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2557","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many times I have lamented the fact that Veterans Day no longer gets the respect it deserves. After all, it used to be a\u00a0<em> holiday<\/em>, right? As in&#8230; no school. What happened? (Think about it&#8211;Columbus Day is way more controversial and we&#8217;ve still got that one.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, it may not be as bad we think.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday at my son&#8217;s school there was in fact a Veterans Day program, and there are further festivities planned today. At schools across the nation (mine included), veterans are being honored with students actually<em> in<\/em> school, learning about Veterans Day rather than sitting home watching other people play video games on the Internet (or whatever kids &#8220;do&#8221; these days).<\/p>\n<p>I like it. I like it, America. And whatever the reason, whatever the season, we at mikeoconnelljr.com (that\u2019s me) salute American veterans and those serving all over the world. Every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many times I have lamented the fact that Veterans Day no longer gets the respect it deserves. After all, it used to be a\u00a0 holiday, right? As in&#8230; no school. What happened? (Think about it&#8211;Columbus Day is way more controversial &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=2557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-2557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2558,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2557\/revisions\/2558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}