{"id":2170,"date":"2008-01-04T20:03:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2008-01-04T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T00:03:58","slug":"andy-olmsted-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2170","title":{"rendered":"Andy Olmsted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/01\/andy-olmsted.html#comments\">This<\/a> is the closest I've come to losing someone I know to this stupid war. And I hope it never gets any closer. To me, Andrew was a guy I only knew as an occasional poster and frequent commenter on <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\">Obsidian Wings<\/a>, and I doubt we exchanged more than a few comments directly to each other. He had a different perspective from mine, but nonetheless seemed like a smart, decent and straight-up kind of person. No, I didn't know him at all, really, but it hurts anyway. I can't imagine what his family and friends feel. <\/p>\n<p>It's just horrible.<\/p>\n<p>Even if he says it isn't, and that serving was his choice, I can't help but feel: What a waste.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn't help that my office had a good-bye lunch today, literally minutes before I learned of Andrew's death, for a friend at work who was just called-up from inactive reserve, to do a 400 day tour of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Such a stupid waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the closest I've come to losing someone I know to this stupid war. And I hope it never gets any closer. To me, Andrew was a guy I only knew as an occasional poster and frequent commenter on Obsidian Wings, and I doubt we exchanged more than a few comments directly to each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}