{"id":380,"date":"2005-05-30T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radragon.com\/giornale\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&amp;articleId=341&amp;blogId=1"},"modified":"2005-05-30T16:00:50","modified_gmt":"2005-05-31T00:00:50","slug":"what-i-learned-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/30\/what-i-learned-on-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"What I learned on Memorial Day."},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li> I realise that I&#039;m quite lucky to be living in the good &#039;ol US of A and am extremely thankful for those currently serving in the armed forces; I am grateful and will pray for those disabled veterans and those that have lost their lives to preserve the freedom in this country. You&#039;ll never really know how &#039;free&#039; the States is unless you&#039;ve lived elsewhere (IMHO&#8230; speaking from my own experiences).<\/li>\n<li> I like 3-day weekends.<\/li>\n<li> Don&#039;t try to outrun a running pack of fit and able OC Sheriff trainees, unless: a) you&#039;re fitter than them; b) you&#039;re on a motorbike or vehicle.<\/li>\n<li> Don&#039;t try to eat every single free sample at a post-run Expo.<\/li>\n<li> See above and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imodium.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Imodium<\/a> is your friend.<\/li>\n<li> I like 3-day weekends. I like eating continuously during 3-day celebrations.<\/li>\n<li> Running on Saturday and Monday does not negate the calories that you have eaten more than you have in a given week in one weekend (but it does help)<\/li>\n<li> See #4.<\/li>\n<li> Sleep is not optional and I won&#039;t wait &#039;til I&#039;m dead to catch a few Zzz&#039;s.<\/li>\n<li> Don&#039;t feel bad if you don&#039;t include your pets in the festivities. If eating too much gives you diarrhea and indigestion; think of what it&#039;ll do to them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\n^_^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> I realise that I&#039;m quite lucky to be living in the good &#039;ol US of A and am extremely thankful for those currently serving in the armed forces; I am grateful and will pray for those disabled veterans and those that have lost their lives to preserve the freedom in this country. You&#039;ll never  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/30\/what-i-learned-on-memorial-day\/\"> read more <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radragon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}