{"id":689,"date":"2004-04-23T10:35:25","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T15:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=689"},"modified":"2004-04-23T10:35:25","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T15:35:25","slug":"pat-tillman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Pat Tillman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/local\/8503289.htm\">BayArea.Com: SJ&#8217;s Tillman, who quit NFL to fight, killed in Afghanistan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was <del>three<\/del>  four years ahead of me in school and I knew his younger brothers.  (The Tillmans were a sports dynasty at my high school.)  I&#8217;m wondering what it&#8217;s going to be like to go home in May after this happened. This is the first person I knew within two degrees of separation of me that has been killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. <\/p>\n<p>Along the same lines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/8496638.htm\">Pentagon Angered by Soldier Coffin Photos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense has been catching so much fire over this.  It used to be that the cameras were on and taking the coffins off the plane was a last tribute and hurrah to those who had died.  Now&#8230; the cameras are off.  All the Vietnam-era people and family members of those who have died are up in arms because they want the world to see the coffins being taken off the planes and the bodies of their sons and daughters coming home.  I happen to agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BayArea.Com: SJ&#8217;s Tillman, who quit NFL to fight, killed in Afghanistan He was three four years ahead of me in school and I knew his younger brothers. (The Tillmans were a sports dynasty at my high school.) I&#8217;m wondering what &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-politics","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-b7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}