{"id":73419,"date":"2018-08-26T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T19:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73419"},"modified":"2018-08-26T16:08:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T20:08:13","slug":"john-mccain-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73419","title":{"rendered":"John McCain RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else\u2019s. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Zc8DiSkTDQ\">pic.twitter.com\/Zc8DiSkTDQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kristin Lemkau (@KLemkau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KLemkau\/status\/1033568934627299333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>In 1993, Mr. McCain gave the commencement address at Annapolis: the sorcerer\u2019s apprentice, class of 1954, home to inspire the midshipmen. He spoke of Navy aviators hurled from the decks of pitching aircraft carriers, of Navy gunners blazing into the silhouettes of onrushing kamikazes, of trapped Marines battling overwhelming Chinese hordes in a breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have spent time in the company of heroes,\u201d he said. \u201cI have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling cruelty until further resistance is impossible, break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more. All these things and more I have seen. And so will you. <strong>I will go to my grave in gratitude to my Creator<\/strong> for allowing me to stand witness to such courage and honor. And so will you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy time is slipping by. Yours is fast approaching. You will know where your duty lies. You will know.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/25\/obituaries\/john-mccain-dead.html\">Read it all<\/a> (my emphasis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else\u2019s. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice, and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=73419\">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":[209,101,438,133,98,151,618],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-politics-in-general","category-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73419","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=73419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73422,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73419\/revisions\/73422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}