{"id":22707,"date":"2025-06-19T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22707"},"modified":"2025-06-19T15:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T15:19:25","slug":"22707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22707","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another whispered, \u201cBet he just comes for the free lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As he walked past, a group of recruits made sure he heard them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1527765\" data-uid=\"11274\">\n<div id=\"mgw1527765_11274\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t believe they let civilians in here now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe probably thinks he\u2019s still enlisted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The old man said nothing. Just sat at the edge of the room, picking at his food with shaking hands. His eyes scanned the wall \u2014 the plaques, the unit photos, the medals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/readmore.cx\/?p=4625\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22225 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Readmore-1-1-1-1-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another whispered, \u201cBet he just comes for the free lunch.\u201d As he walked past, a group of recruits made sure he heard them. \u201cCan\u2019t believe they let civilians in here now.\u201d \u201cHe probably thinks he\u2019s still enlisted.\u201d The old man said nothing. Just sat at the edge of the room, picking at his food with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=22707\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22709,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions\/22709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}