{"id":41001,"date":"2013-11-11T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_vets-turned-firefighters_find_brotherhood_purpose\/"},"modified":"2013-11-11T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T19:01:00","slug":"npr_vets-turned-firefighters_find_brotherhood_purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41001","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Vets-Turned-Firefighters Find Brotherhood, Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Chris Delplato wanted to be a firefighter for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ever since I was a little kid \u201d\u201d [toy] truck and everything,&#8221; Delplato says. But he only just got his dream job, after first joining the Navy and cruising around the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>He was hired by New Jersey&#8217;s North Hudson Fire Department, which brought on 43 veterans this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/11\/11\/243931455\/vets-turned-firefighters-find-brotherhood-purpose\">Read or listen to it all<\/a> and also enjoy all 9 pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Chris Delplato wanted to be a firefighter for a long time. &#8220;Ever since I was a little kid \u201d\u201d [toy] truck and everything,&#8221; Delplato says. But he only just got his dream job, after first joining the Navy and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41001\">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":[39,40,149,133,597,114,106,578,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-history","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-law-legal-issues","category-military-armed-forces","category-policefire","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41001","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=41001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}