{"id":28073,"date":"2025-09-30T16:29:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28073"},"modified":"2025-09-30T16:29:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T16:29:25","slug":"youll-never-get-anywhere-they-mocked-me-at-dinner-the-next-day-dads-boss-walked-in-and-said-good-morning-colonel-their-forks-dropped-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/?p=28073","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou\u2019ll never get anywhere,\u201d they mocked me at dinner. The next day, dad\u2019s boss walked in and said, \u201cGood morning, Colonel.\u201d Their forks dropped when\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My name is Cassandra Rhys. I\u2019m 30 years old, a Colonel in the United States Army, and tomorrow morning, I\u2019ll sit across from my father and brother during a crucial defense contract review. What they don\u2019t know is that I\u2019m the Pentagon liaison with final sign-off authority for the entire project.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been five years since I walked out of this house and didn\u2019t look back.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I was tired of being the family\u2019s letdown\u2014the daughter who \u201cthrew away\u201d her future by joining the military instead of heading to business school. My father once scoffed that the army was for people with no real ambitions. That was the last honest conversation we ever had.’<\/p>\n

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My name is Cassandra Rhys. I\u2019m 30 years old, a Colonel in the United States Army, and tomorrow morning, I\u2019ll sit across from my father and brother during a crucial defense contract review. What they don\u2019t know is that I\u2019m the Pentagon liaison with final sign-off authority for the entire project. It\u2019s been five years…<\/p>\n

Read More “\u201cYou\u2019ll never get anywhere,\u201d they mocked me at dinner. The next day, dad\u2019s boss walked in and said, \u201cGood morning, Colonel.\u201d Their forks dropped when\u2026”<\/span> »<\/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\/28073"}],"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=28073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28076,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28073\/revisions\/28076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsx48.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}