{"id":3142,"date":"2014-05-26T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3142"},"modified":"2014-05-26T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-26T11:59:27","slug":"memorial-day-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2014\/05\/26\/memorial-day-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3143\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MG_8023.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3143\" alt=\"_MG_8023\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MG_8023.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MG_8023.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MG_8023-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arlington National Cemetery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Memorial Day 2014 &#8211; most folks think of the Indy 500 and a three day weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Wabash men have a long and distinguished history of service to our Country. \u00a0500 alone in the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>All of those tombstones at Arlington represent a person who set everything else aside to answer a call. \u00a0We can debate all we want the right or wrong of the call &#8211; but we can not ignore the sacrifice or the dedication and service of those who answered the call and paid the ultimate sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>They weren&#8217;t second class citizens&#8230;they weren&#8217;t people who couldn&#8217;t find something proper to do&#8230;they were just like you and me&#8230;and they cared about you and your future.<\/p>\n<p>We are free today because&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3144\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MG_8116-Version-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3144\" alt=\"Arlington National Cemetery\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MG_8116-Version-2.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MG_8116-Version-2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MG_8116-Version-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arlington National Cemetery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day 2014 &#8211; most folks think of the Indy 500 and a three day weekend. Wabash men have a long and distinguished history of service to our Country. \u00a0500 alone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/05\/MG_8023.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}