{"id":654642,"date":"2010-02-04T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-9083194583484275601"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:35:00","slug":"a-mutt-a-marine-and-a-miracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654642","title":{"rendered":"A Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nubs-True-Story-Marine-Miracle\/dp\/031605318X\">Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S2jYJ2ybY5I\/AAAAAAAAFC8\/CrjPYnbQmio\/s1600-h\/nubs.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S2jYJ2ybY5I\/AAAAAAAAFC8\/CrjPYnbQmio\/s400\/nubs.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5433830614259950482\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m in Barnes and Noble with the boys the other day, sitting at the little kid tables and chairs and this book caught my eye. I started reading it to the baby. Mistake. Bawling in the book store is really just not cute.<\/p>\n<p>What a great book with actual emails from Major Brian Dennis to his family at home and a heart wrenching, but beautiful story. I don&#8217;t know why I didn&#8217;t know about this book before now&#8230;but I&#8217;m so glad I happened across it. And I&#8217;m heartened by the Marines that all worked to get Nubs to the US. And still a little annoyed with the Soldiers that reported him&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-9083194583484275601?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nubs: The True Story of a Mutt, a Marine and a Miracle So I&#8217;m in Barnes and Noble with the boys the other day, sitting at the little kid tables and chairs and this book caught my eye. I started reading it to the baby. Mistake. Bawling in the book store is really just not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2KiK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}