{"id":41078,"date":"2013-11-16T02:45:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T02:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/on_losing_a_veteran_son_to_a_broken_system\/"},"modified":"2013-11-16T02:45:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T02:45:06","slug":"on_losing_a_veteran_son_to_a_broken_system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41078","title":{"rendered":"Howard and Jean Somers&#8211;On Losing a Veteran Son to a Broken System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a parent, you spend your entire life trying to protect your children. You provide them with the very best you can; you hope they learn from your mistakes. It\u2019s so easy when they are young and a simple \u201cbecause I said so\u201d\u009d is reason enough.<\/p>\n<p>How, then, do you wrap your head around the fact that your 30-year-old, happily married son has taken his own life? After the initial shock, you review every single decision you ever made with regard to him. \u201cIf only\u201d\u009d becomes your mantra. Then you look back at his life and remember that he was the most trusting, caring, creative and intelligent human being you\u2019ve ever known.<\/p>\n<p>You want to know what went wrong&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atwar.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/11\/on-losing-a-veteran-son-to-a-broken-system\/?src=recg\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a parent, you spend your entire life trying to protect your children. You provide them with the very best you can; you hope they learn from your mistakes. It\u2019s so easy when they are young and a simple \u201cbecause<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41078\">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":[40,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41078","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=41078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}