{"id":27520,"date":"2025-05-26T19:25:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27520"},"modified":"2025-05-26T19:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:25:04","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27520","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that we live in a time of great divisiveness. Half of our nation thinks that the other half is crazy. And that feeling goes both ways.<\/p>\n<p>So as terribly sad a day as this is, at least Memorial Day is a time when we can all agree on something. The brave men and women who have been willing to give their lives for their country and for their fellow citizens deserve our respect, and our eternal gratitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that we live in a time of great divisiveness. Half of our nation thinks that the other half is crazy. And that feeling goes both ways. So as terribly sad a day as this is, at least Memorial Day is a time when we can all agree on something. The brave men and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=27520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Memorial Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27521,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27520\/revisions\/27521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}