{"id":323,"date":"2005-08-17T11:57:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-17T11:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=317"},"modified":"2005-08-17T11:57:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-17T11:57:23","slug":"81404-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"8\/14\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in Cortez, Colorado, I also interviewed Roland Alksnis, a Vietnam Veteran.  He was in the Army and saw a significant amount of fighting in 1972.  He said he eventually asked to be discharged.  I asked why?  He said:  &#8220;I didn&#8217;t want to kill people anymore.&#8221;  He was given a: &#8220;Discharge Under Honorable Conditions.&#8221;  He was also afflicted with a strong case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  &#8220;If you didn&#8217;t come out of that (Vietnam) all screwed up, there&#8217;s something wrong,&#8221;  Roland added&#8230; We then headed further into the Rockies, toward Durango.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in Cortez, Colorado, I also interviewed Roland Alksnis, a Vietnam Veteran. He was in the Army and saw a significant amount of fighting in 1972. He said he eventually asked to be discharged. I asked why? He said: &#8220;I <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=323\"><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-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","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=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}