{"id":1748,"date":"2005-08-25T10:25:21","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T14:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/08\/pr_stones\/"},"modified":"2005-08-25T10:25:21","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T14:25:21","slug":"pr_stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/pr_stones\/","title":{"rendered":"PR Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It extends <a title=\"U.S. gravestone guidelines changed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/08\/23\/war.gravestones.ap\/\">to the grave<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unlike earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the Pentagon selected to promote public support for the conflicts.<br \/>\nFamilies of fallen soldiers and Marines are being told they have the option to have the government-furnished headstones engraved with &#8220;Operation Enduring Freedom&#8221; or &#8220;Operation Iraqi Freedom&#8221; at no extra charge, whether they are buried in Arlington or elsewhere. A mock-up shown to many families includes the operation names.<br \/>\nThe vast majority of military gravestones from other eras are inscribed with just the basic, required information: name, rank, military branch, date of death and, if applicable, the war and foreign country in which the person served.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess one of the benefits of never officially declaring a war is that a government gets to make up new rules along the way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/08\/pr_stones\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to PR Stones\"><p>It extends to the grave: Unlike earlier wars, nearly all Arlington National Cemetery gravestones for troops killed in Iraq or Afghanistan are inscribed with the slogan-like operation names the Pentagon selected to promote public support for the conflicts. Families of fallen soldiers and Marines are being told they have the option to have the government-furnished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}