{"id":339,"date":"2008-06-08T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2008\/06\/08\/take-time-to-read-this-story\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:37","slug":"take-time-to-read-this-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2008\/06\/08\/take-time-to-read-this-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the time to read this story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone told me to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/print-this\/features\/things-that-carried-him\">this story<\/a> awhile ago, but as I so often do, I found something else that I considered more important and didn&#8217;t get around to it.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, weeks later, I sat down and finally read &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/print-this\/features\/things-that-carried-him\">The Things That Carried Him<\/a>,&#8221; Chris Jones&#8217; incredible, true story in the May, 2008 issue of <em>Esquire<\/em>, about an American soldier&#8217;s journey home from Iraq &#8211; one of nearly 4,000 young soldiers who have been killed since that conflict began.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a remarkable tale. And it&#8217;s one of the best pieces of writing I&#8217;ve ever read anywhere. <\/p>\n<p>Take the time right now to read it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/print-this\/features\/things-that-carried-him\">Here&#8217;s the link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone told me to read this story awhile ago, but as I so often do, I found something else that I considered more important and didn&#8217;t get around to it. This morning, weeks later, I sat down and finally read &#8220;The Things That Carried Him,&#8221; Chris Jones&#8217; incredible, true story in the May, 2008 issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-5t","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}