{"id":44542,"date":"2020-09-26T22:31:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-26T22:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44542"},"modified":"2020-09-26T22:31:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T22:31:38","slug":"time-races-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44542","title":{"rendered":"Time races on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=VietnamWar%20%23Vietnam&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ballcap-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44543\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ballcap-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ballcap-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ballcap-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/ballcap-rotated.jpg 966w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was waiting for the moment to arrive and it did today.<\/p>\n<p>I ventured to the grocery store this morning wearing the ballcap you see in this photo. I like wearing ballcaps anyway and I have a couple of them that tell a tiny portion of my life story. This is one that does.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; a young grocery store employee in her early 20s passed by and said, &#8220;Thank you for your service.&#8221; I nodded in her direction and thanked her for the acknowledgment.<\/p>\n<p>Then she said, &#8220;You know, my <em>grandpa<\/em> served in Vietnam, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I was wearing a mask at the time of that exchange so the young woman was unable to see the combination grimace\/grin that came across my face when I heard what she said.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I know I am getting old. It happens to everyone. I am just grateful that I am able to <em>become<\/em> old enough to receive such a greeting from anyone &#8230; even the <em>grandkids<\/em> of those with whom I served.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=VietnamWar%20%23Vietnam&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com I was waiting for the moment to arrive and it did today. I ventured to the grocery store this morning wearing the ballcap you see in this photo. I like wearing ballcaps anyway and I have a couple of them that tell a tiny portion of my life story. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=44542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time races on<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5110,5116],"class_list":["post-44542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-vietnam","tag-vietnam-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44544,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44542\/revisions\/44544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}