{"id":149,"date":"2004-07-08T17:04:34","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T00:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2004-07-08T17:04:34","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T00:04:34","slug":"recall-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Recall Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/\">Washington Monthly<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>THE BAND PLAYS ON&#8230;.Among the 5,000 reservists called up for duty last week are <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-musicians8jul08,1,3411726.story\">two trumpeters, one trombonist, four clarinetists, three saxophone players, an electric bass player and a euphonium player<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Is there not a way to do without the euphonium player?&#8221; [Representative Vic] Snyder asked Gen. Richard A. Cody, the Army&#8217;s vice chief of staff. &#8220;Do we need to really draft an electric bass player, to pull them back in? Is there not a way that we can&#8217;t let that kind of thing slide?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After a laugh in the hearing room, Cody answered with a straight face that the bands have been busy, tending to services and funerals. These days, Cody said, &#8220;our bands are being stressed quite a bit.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damn right.  And don&#8217;t forget to recall the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/half-mind.com\/weblog\/comments.php?id=P56_0_1_15\">buglers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Monthly: THE BAND PLAYS ON&#8230;.Among the 5,000 reservists called up for duty last week are two trumpeters, one trombonist, four clarinetists, three saxophone players, an electric bass player and a euphonium player: &#8220;Is there not a way to do without the euphonium player?&#8221; [Representative Vic] Snyder asked Gen. Richard A. Cody, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-military"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}