{"id":2375,"date":"2010-12-25T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T08:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2011-09-10T21:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T02:52:32","slug":"christmas-in-afganland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=2375","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Afganland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Merry Christmas from Afghanistan<\/h1>\n

Here’s a little Christmas card from Kenny who’s been stationed in Afghanistan since around August. There is Kenny, bating Santa with cookies and beer.<\/p>\n

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Christmas cards and stocking hung on the wall.\u00a0 Announcements board and lots of food that people get sent to them and don’t want so they leave out for others to scavenge from at their leisure.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also Kenny was promoted to Sergent a few days ago. When I asked if that was like an orange belt in karate, Kenny set me straight, “it is the lowest level leadership position on the enlisted side.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas from Afghanistan Here’s a little Christmas card from Kenny who’s been stationed in Afghanistan since around August. There is Kenny, bating Santa with cookies and beer. Christmas cards and stocking hung on the wall.\u00a0 Announcements board and lots of food that people get sent to them and don’t want so they leave out…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[191,11,189,217],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-journal","tag-afghanistan","tag-christmas","tag-kenny","tag-wartime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}