{"id":751,"date":"2009-05-14T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/14\/north-country-general-picked-by-obama-to-lead-national-guard\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T10:03:00","slug":"north-country-general-picked-by-obama-to-lead-national-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/05\/14\/north-country-general-picked-by-obama-to-lead-national-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"North Country General picked by Obama to lead National Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A military man from Washington County has been tapped by President Barack Obama to head the Army National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Major General Joseph Taluto lives in Fort Ann.<\/p>\n<p>He serves currently as Adjutant General of New York\u2019s National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1998, Taluto led the National Guard response to the North Country Ice Storm.  He also led the 42nd Infantry Division during their deployment to Iraq in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/articles\/2009\/05\/14\/news\/local\/doc4a0b5484d382e729335034.txt\">Glens Falls Post-Star<\/a>, Talutao said he felt like has \u201cup to the work\u201d and has \u201csomething to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taluto, who\u2019s 61 years old, has served in the Army and the National Guard for more than four decades.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Taluto will coordinate more than 300 thousand troops nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A military man from Washington County has been tapped by President Barack Obama to head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}