{"id":20384,"date":"2021-02-05T11:56:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20384"},"modified":"2021-02-05T11:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T16:56:36","slug":"troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2021\/02\/05\/troops\/","title":{"rendered":"Troops"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I\u2019m not developing this thought, particularly, but my reaction to the news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2021\/feb\/05\/joe-biden-donald-trump-impeachment-covid-coronavirus-marjorie-taylor-greene-live-updates?page=with:block-601d6d3a8f0898d76fa10c93#block-601d6d3a8f0898d76fa10c93'\">the Defense department will send 1,000 troops to support mass vaccination sites<\/a> is <i>can\u2019t we hire anyone who isn\u2019t a soldier?<\/i>\r\n<p>I know there\u2019s a long and noble tradition of using our military for \u2018civilian\u2019 tasks in emergency situations, but it kinda feels like the non-military capacity of our government is just\u2026 depleted. And that\u2019s leaving aside the question of whether troops are the right people\u2014I assume that there are at least a thousand people in our military who can be found for any specialized task. And it\u2019s not a criticism specifically of the current administration, even though they knew this was coming and could have had a plan ready for hiring civilians. But I guess we don\u2019t hire civilians these days.\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger doesn't look up the job numbers, and hopes the job numbers don't look him up.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-item"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20385,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20384\/revisions\/20385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}