{"id":4948,"date":"2016-11-11T16:07:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2025-01-19T01:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T01:28:30","slug":"veterans-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/?p=4948","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am honored to know several veterans. As we thank them today, I can&#8217;t help but think of the rest of the year, where I see the toll their service has taken on them. The inner turmoil, the aching body, the bad back, and memories I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;ll never know&#8230;they live with this 24\/7\/365.<\/p>\n<p>So today when we give thanks for these heroes, it seems incomplete, like we just can&#8217;t give them enough. It&#8217;s a debt people like me can never fully repay. <\/p>\n<p>So when we say thanks, they&#8217;re only words, but please know they are a reflection of the love and respect we have for you. And in a time of crisis that we have now, where so many are divided, it&#8217;s a nice reminder that there are some things that we can all agree on. That&#8217;s just one more service our Veterans have provided to us. I am grateful for them all.<\/p>\n<p>With love, respect, and heartfelt thanks,<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Tech<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/veterans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/veterans-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"veterans\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4958\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/veterans-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/veterans.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am honored to know several veterans. As we thank them today, I can&#8217;t help but think of the rest of the year, where I see the toll their service has taken on them. The inner turmoil, the aching body, the bad back, and memories I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;ll never know&#8230;they live with this 24\/7\/365. So&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/?p=4948\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}