{"id":778,"date":"2008-08-30T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T19:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2008-08-30T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T19:45:04","slug":"hockey-mom-palin-is-also-army-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/hockey-mom-palin-is-also-army-mom","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hockey Mom&quot; Palin is also &#8216;Army Mom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hughhewitt.townhall.com\/blog\/g\/7157b0d1-1b89-4ddf-b442-5cdc63dec2b6\" target=\"_blank\">My friend and colleague Hugh Hewitt notes<\/a> that Sarah Palin is the first mother of an American soldier to be nominated for the second highest office in the land. I would add <em>&#8220;soon to be deployed&#8221;<\/em> to the descriptive before &#8220;American soldier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you realize how far this will go to disabuse the country of the made-up liberal lie that Republicans long for war? Do you realize how many mothers with kids in Iraq and Afghanistan will trust McCain-Palin to lead the American military strategically and into war only when necessary, given the high personal stakes BOTH\u00a0of them\u00a0have in the outcome? <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/for-mccain-sons-duty-in-iraq-is-not-a-talking-point-2008-04-02.html\" target=\"_blank\">McCain has two sons in the military<\/a>, one of whom just returned from a tour in Iraq. The other is at the Naval Academy and may be deployed to Iraq by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/08\/21\/bidens-son-going-to-iraq_n_120329.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden&#8217;s son will be deployed to Iraq in October<\/a>. Biden&#8217;s reaction? &#8220;I don&#8217;t want him going.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend and colleague Hugh Hewitt notes that Sarah Palin is the first mother of an American soldier to be nominated for the second highest office in the land. I would add &#8220;soon to be deployed&#8221; to the descriptive before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/hockey-mom-palin-is-also-army-mom\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[401,159,195,472,479],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joe-biden","tag-john-mccain","tag-military","tag-sarah-palin","tag-son"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}