{"id":11029,"date":"2016-10-19T00:53:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T06:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=11029"},"modified":"2016-10-18T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T21:54:22","slug":"the-umbrella-a-touching-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=11029","title":{"rendered":"The Umbrella &#8211; A Touching Story&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a rainy afternoon, a group of protesters were gathered outside the grocery store handing out pamphlets on the evils of America. I politely declined to take one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There was an elderly woman behind me, and a young (20-ish) female protester offered her a pamphlet, which she politely declined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The young protester gently put her hand on the old woman&#8217;s shoulder and in a patronizing voice said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you care about the children of Iraq?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The old woman looked up at her and said: &#8220;Honey, my father died in France during World War II, I lost my husband in Korea, and a son in Vietnam. All three died so a naive, ignorant, self centered bimbo like you could have the right to stand here and badmouth our country, and if you touch me again, I&#8217;ll shove this umbrella up your ass and open it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">God Bless America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a rainy afternoon, a group of protesters were gathered outside the grocery store handing out pamphlets on the evils of America. I politely declined to take one. There was an elderly woman behind me, and a young (20-ish) female protester offered her a pamphlet, which she politely declined. The young protester gently put her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=11029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Umbrella &#8211; A Touching Story&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11030,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11029\/revisions\/11030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}