{"id":56804,"date":"2016-12-23T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_great_anecdote_about_general_mattis_at_christmas_from_mark_shields\/"},"modified":"2016-12-23T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T17:00:32","slug":"a_great_anecdote_about_general_mattis_at_christmas_from_mark_shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56804","title":{"rendered":"A Great anecdote about General Mattis at Christmas from Mark Shields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/shields-brooks-mattis-carrier-deal-pelosis-re-election\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;.the one quick anecdote, and that is, when General Charles Krulak was commandant of the Marine Corps, every Christmas \u201d\u201d this was in the late \u201990s \u201d\u201d he and his wife would bake cookies for the last couple weeks before Christmas. And he would get up at 4:00 in the morning with General Krulak and deliver them in little packages to the Marines who were standing duty that day, because every Marine base, every Marine post has be somebody standing duty.<\/p>\n<p>And he showed up at Quantico and he asked the Marine lance corporal who was on duty, where is the officer of the day and who it is? He said, it\u2019s General Mattis, sir. He said, no, no, it\u2019s not General Mattis. I mean, who is the officer of the day? And he said, it\u2019s General Mattis, sir.<\/p>\n<p>And up comes Jim Mattis and a general, brigadier general, and he is on duty and he has got his sword. And the commandant says, what are you doing here? He said, well, there was a young lieutenant who was on duty today, and he has a wife and two children. And I thought it was better that he have Christmas with his family.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the kind of man he is. It\u2019s the kind of values he\u2019s embodied. He\u2019s independent. He\u2019s strong. And he will be good for the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found here: &#8230;.the one quick anecdote, and that is, when General Charles Krulak was commandant of the Marine Corps, every Christmas \u201d\u201d this was in the late \u201990s \u201d\u201d he and his wife would bake cookies for the last couple<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56804\">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":[48,39,40,101,575,187,143,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-defense-national-security-military","category-marriage-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56804","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=56804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}