{"id":86,"date":"2019-05-21T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T20:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2024-02-16T11:35:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T16:35:52","slug":"please-dont-sell-out-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/please-dont-sell-out-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Please don’t “sell out” Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many will “celebrate” Memorial Day as any other holiday, with barbecues, beer, and commercial sales at local malls. Simply put, they have sold out Memorial Day.<\/p>\n

This weekend, please visit a local cemetery, find a marker for any veteran, and reflect on their service to this great nation.<\/p>\n

“Your silent tents of green
\nWe deck with fragrant flowers;
\nYours has the suffering been,
\nThe memory shall be ours.”
\nHenry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/span><\/p>\n

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Many will “celebrate” Memorial Day as any other holiday, with barbecues, beer, and commercial sales at local malls. Simply put, they have sold out Memorial Day. This weekend, please visit a local cemetery, find a marker for any veteran, and reflect on their service to this great nation. “Your silent tents of green We deck … Continue reading “Please don’t “sell out” Memorial Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucetimberlake.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}