{"id":1956,"date":"2011-05-28T05:13:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T12:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2011-05-28T05:13:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T12:13:58","slug":"quote-for-today-may-28-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"Quote for Today, May 28, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day.  I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it.  We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.&#8221;  &#8212;  Benjamin Harrison<\/p>\n<p>I usually don&#8217;t post videos w\/front end advertising, but this one is well worth sitting through the short (15 sec.) ad. Hadn&#8217;t seen\/heard this before &#8211; grab some tissues. Will be posting this again this weekend. Encourage you to do the same. Very moving. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rJO7lJIxG10 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day. I have rather felt that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sierramadrenews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}