{"id":6361,"date":"2014-11-10T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/us-marine-corps-216th-birthday\/"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:34:17","slug":"us-marine-corps-216th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/us-marine-corps-216th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Marine Corps 216th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/sign72b.jpg' alt='sign72b.jpg' width='350' class='right' \/>A hearty Happy Birthday and job well done to the men and women that serve or have served in the <strong>United States Marine Corps<\/strong>. We will never forget the <em>Few and the Proud<\/em> who share the legacy of the Corps. God bless the USMC.<\/p>\n<p>On November 10, 1798, <strong>President John Adams<\/strong> signed the Act establishing the United States Marine Corps. The 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, <strong>General John A. Lejeune<\/strong>, issued Marine Corps Order Number 47, Series 1921, directing that on November 10th of every year, in honor of the Corps&#8217; birthday, the Order&#8217;s summary of the history, mission and tradition of the Corps be read to each and every command.<\/p>\n<p>Although I was in the Navy, I really liked this spoof of the &#8220;Never mind the dog&#8221; window sign that features the USMC Logo and serves as a warning to those that may want to think twice before entering the premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hearty Happy Birthday and job well done to the men and women that serve or have served in the United States Marine Corps. We will&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}