{"id":178,"date":"2012-05-23T10:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2012-05-23T10:39:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T17:39:49","slug":"a-memorial-day-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"A Memorial Day Tribute&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>I cannot take any credit for the images in this blog post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All the credit goes to my talented friend, Caitlin Trantham {Oh Penelope Photography}!<br \/>\nShe is a Marine wife, mother of two and a photographer in Saint Louis, Mo.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Heaven Was Needing a Hero\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caitlin-Trantham_hero4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>When words are not enough&#8230; Images speak what\u00a0cannot be spoken&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With Caitlin\u2019s permission,<br \/>\nI share these images\u00a0with you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>These beyond-amazing images honor the heroes of our great nation&#8230;<br \/>\nthe ones who fight for our freedoms,<br \/>\nthe ones willing to lay down their life so we can live.<\/p>\n<p>{btw, you might want to grab a tissue\u2026 or the whole box\u2026 these images are powerful!}<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all who have served,<br \/>\nwho are serving,<br \/>\nwho supported\u00a0their spouse\u00a0while serving,<br \/>\nwho supported their children\u00a0while serving,<br \/>\nor who are planning to serve.<\/p>\n<p>What you do matters&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;and it doesn&#8217;t go unnoticed!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u2665 Thank you! \u2665<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So as we go about our weekend<br \/>\ngathering with family and friends,<br \/>\nhaving BBQ&#8217;s<br \/>\nand enjoying other festivities&#8230;<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s not forget the ones fighting,<br \/>\nboth at home and abroad,<br \/>\nto\u00a0protect our freedoms to do so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Please go view Caitlin&#8217;s entire blog post:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ohpenelopephotography.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/heaven-was-needing-hero.html\">http:\/\/ohpenelopephotography.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/heaven-was-needing-hero.html<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAnd Then go find someone who has or is serving in our military and thank them!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Heaven Was Needing a Hero\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caitlin-Trantham_hero6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Heaven Was Needing a Hero\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caitlin-Trantham_hero8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Heaven Was Needing a Hero\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Caitlin-Trantham_hero9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"677\" height=\"1023\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I cannot take any credit for the images in this blog post. All the credit goes to my talented friend, Caitlin Trantham {Oh Penelope Photography}! She is a Marine wife, mother of two and a photographer in Saint Louis, Mo. When words are not enough&#8230; Images speak what\u00a0cannot be spoken&#8230; With Caitlin\u2019s permission, I share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[63,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}