{"id":3782,"date":"2011-02-17T10:24:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3782"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:00:44","slug":"what-do-you-ask-a-war-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/02\/17\/what-do-you-ask-a-war-vet\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you ask a war vet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This question has come up countless times for me since 2001, when 10th Mountain Division soldiers were among the first to ship off to Afghanistan.\u00a0 (It&#8217;s fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/644\/20020415\/soldiers-wives-reflect-on-battle\">going back to the media scrum when those soldiers returned home in 2002<\/a>.)\u00a0 The question, &#8220;what do I not ask?&#8221; is even more important as I interview soldiers and vets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.va.gov\/VAntage\/?p=1432\">Here&#8217;s a great essay<\/a> on what to ask and what not to ask a vet, from a prominent retired Army blogger.\u00a0 With so many veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan across the North Country, it&#8217;s worth a read to do what we civilians can to make their post-war lives easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This question has come up countless times for me since 2001, when 10th Mountain Division [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5628,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3784,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions\/3784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}