{"id":2278,"date":"2020-05-27T01:52:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2020-05-27T01:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:52:52","slug":"memorial-day-two-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2278","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day \/ two takes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"663\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/world-photo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/world-photo.png 663w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/world-photo-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/world-photo-500x225.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><figcaption>World photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For Memorial Day this year, I interviewed two men.  One was a local man who was a Marine and fought in Iraq right at the beginning of the war.  A Christian, he was willing to lay down his life to free the Iraqi people from the iron fist and well-documented murderous, torturous ways of Saddam Hussein.  He was two blocks from the iconic Iraqi War scene where, with much fanfare, Hussein&#8217;s statue in Baghdad was toppled.  The other man is a local Mennonite and a Christian Peacemaker.  He went to Columbia at the height of that bloody civil war to help displaced people stand up for their land rights, and so on.  What&#8217;s more, he and others, were human shields for children, from this displaced group, as they walked to school each day.  This man said the motto of the Christian Peacemaker is that:  &#8220;We should be willing to die for our cause as much as a military person is willing to die for their cause.&#8221;  You&#8217;d think Jesus would agree when He said:  &#8220;No greater love has a man&#8230;&#8221;  Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/foreign-policy\">foreign policy<\/a> revolves around this kind of ethos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Memorial Day this year, I interviewed two men. One was a local man who was a Marine and fought in Iraq right at the beginning of the war. A Christian, he was willing to lay down his life to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2278\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2280,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/2280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}