{"id":421,"date":"2003-11-24T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T23:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=421"},"modified":"2003-11-24T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2003-11-24T23:33:14","slug":"join-the-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"Join the Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>A<\/span>lfons has some pretty images (screenshots rather) <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~alfons\/weblog\/archives\/2003_11.html#001169\">of the game Call of Duty<\/a>. He talks about scripted events, so I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s a positive thing or not.\n<\/p>\n<p>The images remind me of the days I was called for active duty: that was in the days the Royal Army was heavily relying on conscription. Yes, SIR. I was one of the guys that had to join the army to defend our nation from the bad red Russian invaders. I remember <a href=\"http:\/\/remtek.com\/arms\/fn\/fal\/\">lugging a FAL around<\/a> (&#8220;7.5 kilos without the bullets&#8221;) for over a month. Then I got lucky when doctors found out that my eyes were way too bad, well, according to army specifications (&#8216;you&#8217;re lucky that you didn&#8217;t kill anybody&#8217;) and I was honourably discharged. I did my brother a great service too, for taking up another extra week in the army. He got the <em>family<\/em> wild card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfons has some pretty images (screenshots rather) of the game Call of Duty. He talks about scripted events, so I&#8217;m not sure if that&#8217;s a positive thing or not. The images remind me of the days I was called for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}