{"id":1954,"date":"2012-05-28T07:32:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/captionid=align=alignleftwidth=240caption=MemorialDayCommemoration\u00a0"},"modified":"2012-05-28T07:32:56","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T15:32:56","slug":"memorial-day-thoughts-and-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threeadventure.com\/hootnannie\/2012\/05\/28\/memorial-day-thoughts-and-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Thoughts and Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Memorial Day, we hope you all have a fun and festive day with family and friends&#8230;but a few quick thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;Happy&#8221; Memorial Day seems unfitting yet I&#8217;ve always said that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Everyone should be safe today&#8230;use a designated driver if you choose to drink.<\/p>\n<p>Everyday should be Memorial Day&#8230;the notion that we can &#8220;remember and honor&#8221; the men and women that choose to put their life on the line for me, for Annie, for our unborn son, and for you just once a year or ten times a year is not okay. They deserve our support and care year round. My personal thought is that this country got better at showing this after 9\/ 11 but we can always improve even more.<\/p>\n<p>So have a great day and be safe, and if the opportunity arises&#8230;thank a soldier!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/2012\/05\/26\/2082434\/memorial-day-events-in-slo-county.html\">http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/2012\/05\/26\/2082434\/memorial-day-events-in-slo-county.html<\/a>\u00a0link to SLO Tribune about events happening in SLO county today<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/27\/gotta-watch-military-homecomings\/?hpt=hp_c2\">http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/05\/27\/gotta-watch-military-homecomings\/?hpt=hp_c2<\/a>\u00a0CNN link to article and a few videos of soldier homecomings<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/welcomehomeblog.com\/\">http:\/\/welcomehomeblog.com\/<\/a>\u00a0website about soldiers coming home<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none;float: right\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_a.png?x-id=e1ee7422-0063-4513-9337-c6343d6d627f\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Memorial Day, we hope you all have a fun and festive day with family and friends&#8230;but a few quick thoughts. &#8211; &#8220;Happy&#8221; Memorial Day&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[30,129,242,243,317,321,416,510],"class_list":{"0":"post-1954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wine-types","7":"tag-annie","8":"tag-cnn","9":"tag-holidays","10":"tag-home","11":"tag-memorial-day","12":"tag-military","13":"tag-ronald-reagan","14":"tag-united-states","15":"entry","16":"has-post-thumbnail"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Memorial Day Thoughts and Reflections<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We should honor those who serve our country on Memorial Day and every day of the year! 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