{"id":12458,"date":"2019-05-22T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12458"},"modified":"2019-05-22T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T23:34:00","slug":"memorial-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12458","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proxy.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.norwegianamerican.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F06%2FCb-vol1-032da.jpg&amp;f=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I mentioned earlier<\/strong> that I&#8217;ll be participating in the dedication of a war memorial at Fort Snelling Cemetery in Minneapolis this Saturday, May 25. The event will be in honor of the<a href=\"https:\/\/99battalion.org\"> 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate)<\/a> of which I&#8217;ve written several times before. I actually have no personal connection to the unit, except for ethnicity and historical interest. But they&#8217;ve invited me to give the invocation, and I will be doing that. In Viking costume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see a local TV report on the event and on the unit itself, follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fox9.com\/news\/group-honors-vikings-who-defeated-nazis-in-wwii?fbclid=IwAR1Q6hep6Jog6TTxraXhwOkJ6H_m-nOhzv_y9d7e1H6mNo37T6vvUiU8cEE\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned earlier that I&#8217;ll be participating in the dedication of a war memorial at Fort Snelling Cemetery in Minneapolis this Saturday, May 25. The event will be in honor of the 99th Infantry Battalion (Separate) of which I&#8217;ve written several times before. I actually have no personal connection to the unit, except for ethnicity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=12458\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memorial Weekend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,998,3385],"class_list":["post-12458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-99th-infantry-battalion-separate","tag-fort-snelling","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}