{"id":48605,"date":"2015-11-11T07:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48605"},"modified":"2015-11-11T11:03:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T18:03:29","slug":"the-veterans-day-conversation-you-will-not-hear-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/11\/11\/the-veterans-day-conversation-you-will-not-hear-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The Veteran&#8217;s Day Conversation You Will Not Hear Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/09\/16\/kpfk-gm-leslie-radford-has-cut-uprisings-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">BANNED BROADCAST<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801504.us.archive.org\/28\/items\/uprising_2015_11_11\/Hart_Viges_2015_11_11.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801504.us.archive.org\/28\/items\/uprising_2015_11_11\/uprising_2015_11_11.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Hart Viges<\/strong> is active with the group Sustainable Options for Youth. He is based in Austin, Texas, and is headed to Northern California later this week. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Veteran&#8217;s Day today &#8211; a day when the US is supposed to remember soldiers who fought in wars, a day to fly flags, march in parades, and of course, shop in special Veteran&#8217;s Day sales. The past decade and a half has been a grim one for troops, being deployed to numerous wars that have seemingly no end. <\/p>\n<p>Behind the facade of heroism, glory, and nationalistic pride, are the tragic statistics that show more soldiers die by their own hand than in combat, wracked by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Homelessness, unemployment, sexual assault, and domestic violence are hallmarks of the lives that veterans lead. <\/p>\n<p>Today, to mark Veteran&#8217;s Day, we turn to one of the first soldiers who was deployed to Iraq as part of combat operations in that war. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Event Details:<\/strong> Hart Viges will be doing a training for people interested in counter recruitment efforts on Saturday, Nov 14th, from 1 pm to 4:30 pm at Intersection of the Arts, 925 Mission Street, San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANNED BROADCAST GUEST: Hart Viges is active with the group Sustainable Options for Youth. He is based in Austin, Texas, and is headed to Northern California later this week. It&#8217;s Veteran&#8217;s Day today &#8211; a day when the US is supposed to remember soldiers who fought in wars, a day to fly flags, march in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48613,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48605\/revisions\/48613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}