{"id":17009,"date":"2012-05-27T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/index.php\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T20:22:48","slug":"memorial-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/memorial-day-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Memorial Day\" href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140108192925\/http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/memorial-day-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"historycom noopener noreferrer\">Memorial Day<\/a> is not about the start of summer, sales, or the end of school, it is about service. It is about honoring the military service of the men and women that protect the United States. Without them, life in the U.S. could be quite different.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.new-jersey-leisure-guide.com\/memorial-day.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-109518\" title=\"Memorial Day 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-day_2012.jpg?resize=399%2C171&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Memorial Day 2012\" width=\"399\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-day_2012.jpg?resize=150%2C64&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-day_2012.jpg?resize=75%2C32&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-day_2012.jpg?resize=768%2C329&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/memorial-day_2012.jpg?w=934&amp;ssl=1 934w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Airman, Marines, Sailors, Soldiers, and their families sacrifice daily to protect our freedom to tweet, blog, go shopping, or go to the beach. Think about them as you go to the mall to buy another pair of $200 sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day in the United States Airman, Marines, Sailors, Soldiers and their families sacrifice daily to protect our freedom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3125],"tags":[2197,1263,1261,1264,1267,1266,1259,1260,1265,471,1262],"class_list":["post-17009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-2197","tag-air-force","tag-american-civil-war","tag-army","tag-coast-guard","tag-marines","tag-memorial-day","tag-military-service","tag-navy","tag-united-states","tag-veteran"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17009"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127893,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17009\/revisions\/127893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}