{"id":5394,"date":"2011-11-15T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2011-11-15T19:11:06","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T02:11:06","slug":"opinion-what-veterans-day-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2011\/11\/15\/opinion-what-veterans-day-means-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: What Veterans Day means to me"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I read the Town Talk last week [Nov. 10], asking people what they were doing to observe Veterans Day and if it had special meaning for them, tears streamed down my cheeks. <\/p>\n

To think that there are people out there who will give their lives to protect my freedom. I can\u2019t think of how I could ever repay them for their sacrifice, except to enjoy and appreciate what freedom brings, and always be grateful for those who make the ultimate sacrifice to keep me safe and free.<\/p>\n

Kristy Baker
\nHemet and Idyllwild<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I read the Town Talk last week [Nov. 10], asking people what they were doing to observe Veterans Day and if it had special meaning for them, tears streamed down my cheeks. To think that there are people out there who will give their lives to protect my freedom. I can\u2019t think of how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nOpinion: What Veterans Day means to me • Idyllwild Town Crier<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2011\/11\/15\/opinion-what-veterans-day-means-to-me\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\">\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"0 minutes\">\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/\",\"name\":\"Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"description\":\"Almost All the News \\u2014\\u00a0Part of the Time\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2011\/11\/15\/opinion-what-veterans-day-means-to-me\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2011\/11\/15\/opinion-what-veterans-day-means-to-me\/\",\"name\":\"Opinion: What Veterans Day means to me • Idyllwild Town Crier\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-11-16T02:11:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-11-16T02:11:06+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a605c395c68d70ebff04baa8c6db5908\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/2011\/11\/15\/opinion-what-veterans-day-means-to-me\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#\/schema\/person\/a605c395c68d70ebff04baa8c6db5908\",\"name\":\"Town Crier\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8243a467cafff8603d6155329abd7d77?s=96&d=retro&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Town Crier\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllwildtowncrier.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}