{"id":34734,"date":"2012-09-24T15:45:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_va_reaches_out_to_veterans_behind_bars\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T15:45:18","slug":"local_paper_va_reaches_out_to_veterans_behind_bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34734","title":{"rendered":"(Local paper) VA Reaches out to veterans behind bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A decade after his military service, McLean faces 15 years to life in prison if he\u2019s convicted of first-degree burglary. He makes no excuses for the addict he\u2019s become.<\/p>\n<p>Six months in jail awaiting a court date have provided him some quality detox time. Abusing alcohol and crack cocaine, McLean was homeless when he was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never gotten into trouble except when drugs and alcohol were involved,\u201d\u009d he says.<\/p>\n<p>He admits he needs help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20120923\/PC1204\/120929827\/1015\/va-reaches-out-to-veterans-behind-bars\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade after his military service, McLean faces 15 years to life in prison if he\u2019s convicted of first-degree burglary. He makes no excuses for the addict he\u2019s become. Six months in jail awaiting a court date have provided him<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34734\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,86,143,99,141,114,177,88,102,129,34,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-alcoholism","category-defense-national-security-military","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-iraq-war","category-law-legal-issues","category-pastoral-theology","category-poverty","category-prisonprison-ministry","category-psychology","category-theology","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}