{"id":1133,"date":"2012-01-06T03:45:43","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T08:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2012-01-06T03:45:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T08:45:43","slug":"army-national-guard-units-heading-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/01\/army-national-guard-units-heading-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Army National Guard units heading to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even across the river at the Pentagon, the very morning deployment to Afghanistan was becoming a reality for nearly 100 local families, President Obama was announcing plans for a reduced American military.<\/p>\n<p>Heading off to war seems so 2002, not 2012.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, here we are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like all of America forgot that we\u2019re still going out there. My husband\u2019s going to Afghanistan. I have to tell people it\u2019s a whole different war,\u201d said Chaniqua Moore, 23, a District mother of two who was one of 80 families saying goodbye to their soldiers Thursday morning at the D.C. Armory.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/national-guard-deployment-sendoff-becomes-an-old-and-emotional-ritual\/2012\/01\/05\/gIQAFizedP_story.html\">National Guard deployment sendoff becomes an old and emotional ritual &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even across the river at the Pentagon, the very morning deployment to Afghanistan was becoming a reality for nearly 100 local families, President Obama was announcing plans for a reduced American military. Heading off to war seems so 2002, not 2012. And yet, here we are. \u201cIt\u2019s like all of America forgot that we\u2019re still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9,18],"tags":[736,734,733,735],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}