{"id":116343,"date":"2026-04-22T14:42:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116343"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:42:56","slug":"116343","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=116343","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never mocked or looked down on anyone who hasn\u2019t served their country.<br \/>\nThat said, if you\u2019ve never worn the uniform but want to lecture me based on your Call of Duty experience or a Tom Clancy novel, respectfully, take a seat. &#8211; Mike Bales <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve never mocked or looked down on anyone who hasn\u2019t served their country. That said, if you\u2019ve never worn the uniform but want to lecture me based on your Call of Duty experience or a Tom Clancy novel, respectfully, take a seat. &#8211; Mike Bales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116344,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116343\/revisions\/116344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}