{"id":151,"date":"2004-05-31T17:08:46","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T00:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2006-09-03T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T00:27:20","slug":"the-slippery-slope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"The Slippery Slope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of a military career is being buried in Arlington National Cemetery, or at the very least having a military funeral with an honor guard and a bugler playing Taps. And now <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skbcases.com\/news\/pr\/2004\/item09.html\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Damn, at this rate, by the time I die, burial in Arlington will be some sort of revolving-door ceremony. They&#8217;ll play a recording of Taps, send over some old geezer from the local VFW to shout &#8220;Bang!&#8221; three times, and lower me into the hole. But it&#8217;ll be a ceremonial hole . . . after everyone leaves they&#8217;ll hoist me back out and put me on a conveyor belt to the crematorium, so that the next poor bastard can lowered and hoisted out, and the next, and the next . . . thanks once again, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>, for making my day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the perks of a military career is being buried in Arlington National Cemetery, or at the very least having a military funeral with an honor guard and a bugler playing Taps. And now this. Damn, at this rate, by the time I die, burial in Arlington will be some sort of revolving-door ceremony. [&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-151","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\/151","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=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}