{"id":9114,"date":"2012-05-28T10:16:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T18:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9114"},"modified":"2012-05-28T10:16:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T18:16:57","slug":"its-not-about-pool-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/its-not-about-pool-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not about pool parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9115\" title=\"USMC_War_Memorial\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/USMC_War_Memorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/USMC_War_Memorial.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/USMC_War_Memorial-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;<span style=\"font-size: small;\">But one thing that  it&#8217;s always about &#8212; is how lucky we are to be Americans, to have the  comfort of knowing that regardless of where our soldiers are or what we  are doing, our families live secure, peaceful, and relatively safe  lives. Free from the dangers and issues of everyday war, of being in the  wrong place at the wrong time. Of driving down the road to take  your\u00a0children to school and getting hit by an Improvised Explosive  Device, or having to watch a death squad kill someone&#8217;s family in  the market square\u00a0in retribution for a\u00a0family member voting for the  wrong party or flying the wrong\u00a0flag.\u00a0Of having a sniper fire at you as  you try to get  water from the only well that has safe drinking water.&#8221; &#8212; Col. <strong>Jordan S. Chroman<\/strong> (U.S. Army), <a href=\"http:\/\/view.exacttarget.com\/?j=fe6115787d66057d7310&amp;m=ff031570776603&amp;ls=fdee177975670c7c7c107673&amp;l=fec915757d60067f&amp;s=fe2a1c73716c0475701570&amp;jb=ffcf14&amp;ju=fe25157970630475701370\" target=\"_blank\">on the meaning of <strong>Memorial Day<\/strong><\/a>, as compiled by <strong>Christine Faria<\/strong>, vice president for operations and communications at <strong>Raving Consulting<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But one thing that it&#8217;s always about &#8212; is how lucky we are to be Americans, to have the comfort of knowing that regardless of where our soldiers are or what we are doing, our families live secure, peaceful, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/its-not-about-pool-parties\/\">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":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9116,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9114\/revisions\/9116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}