{"id":2301,"date":"2018-09-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:46:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:46:17","slug":"incoming-alwayswantsoldier8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"881. Always Want to be a Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, some of us wanted to be in the military ever since we were little kids. Me included. Of course I grew up in the era when all of the kids on the block&#8217;s fathers were only 10 years out of WWII. It was amazing, everyone you knew or played with spoke of their dad&#8217;s service in either Europe or the South Pacific. Have a great weekend and stay safe.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2018-09-21-INCOMING_AlwaysWantSoldier8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2018-09-21-INCOMING_AlwaysWantSoldier8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2018-09-21-INCOMING_AlwaysWantSoldier8.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2018-09-21-INCOMING_AlwaysWantSoldier8-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2018-09-21-INCOMING_AlwaysWantSoldier8-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2018-09-21-INCOMING_AlwaysWantSoldier8-301x300.jpg 301w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, some of us wanted to be in the military ever since we were little kids. Me included. Of course I grew up in the era when all of the kids on the block&#8217;s fathers were only 10 years out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/?p=2301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3193,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2301\/revisions\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnsheppardcartoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}