{"id":20271,"date":"2021-05-31T16:13:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=20271"},"modified":"2021-05-31T16:13:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T23:13:19","slug":"memorial-day-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2021\/05\/memorial-day-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the United States, Memorial Day is a day honoring all those who died in U.S. wars. This day has come to be more meaningful to me as I get older, gain more knowledge of history and particularly this last year and some months (COVID-19 Pandemic). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was not much interested in history when in school, but have since, particularly the last 6 years, read a lot … particularly of the WWI and WWII years. It makes me ashamed of how we have dealt with the relatively mild restrictions of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It also makes me VERY appreciative of the sacrifice of all who gave their lives in defense of democracy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, I not only turned my thoughts to those who gave their lives … in all wars … some very recent … but also to the families and loved ones that have had to live with the loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To honor the sacrifice, I appreciate what I have … in my beautiful bit of woods and comfortable little house with my dear dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the United States, Memorial Day is a day honoring all those who died in U.S. wars. This day has come to be more meaningful to me as I get older, gain more knowledge of history and particularly this last year and some months (COVID-19 Pandemic). I was not much interested in history when in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20284,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20271\/revisions\/20284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}