{"id":6396,"date":"2014-11-03T01:10:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T07:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2014-11-03T01:10:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T07:10:28","slug":"todays-u-s-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/todays-u-s-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s U.S. Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41V0VOWjFCL._SL250_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0756546184\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0756546184&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20&amp;linkId=RL2JOSI2NSZBZX7Z\">Today&#8217;s U.S. Army<\/a><br \/>\nby Don Nardo (Author)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> The soldiers of the U.S. Army stand ready to defend their country. To become a soldier, recruits train hard to get into tip-top shape. They learn to use weapons of all kinds. Some head to war zones.  Others undergo training to become special ops fighters. They are super-soldiers who perform top-secret, dangerous missions around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> After finishing basic training, the recruits are full-fledged soldiers. Their initial rank is private. Over time some may be promoted to corporal or sergeant. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asuen.com\/images\/nonfiction.monday.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nonfictionmonday.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Site Meter\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s U.S. Army by Don Nardo (Author) Booktalk: The soldiers of the U.S. Army stand ready to defend their country. To become a soldier, recruits train hard to get into tip-top shape. They learn to use weapons of all kinds. Some head to war zones. Others undergo training to become special ops fighters. They are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/todays-u-s-army\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today&#8217;s U.S. Army<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-nonfiction-monday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}