{"id":11078,"date":"2011-12-25T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T13:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11078"},"modified":"2011-12-25T09:15:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T14:15:02","slug":"the-true-christmas-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11078","title":{"rendered":"The True Christmas Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:1STWPNTWcrpped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"Stonewood Rd. in Baltimore Maryland cropped fo...\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/f\/f3\/1STWPNTWcrpped.jpg\/300px-1STWPNTWcrpped.jpg\" alt=\"Stonewood Rd. in Baltimore Maryland cropped fo...\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are people among us who practice Christmas all year long. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-hometown-baltimore-20111225,0,4000069.story\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0posted a story about\u00a0some of them today.<\/p>\n<p>Earl Johnson, a former Army Ranger who served in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, Rich Blake, 32, a Marine Corps veteran; and Jeremy Johnson, 34<strong>, <\/strong>a Navy veteran, are part of Operation Oliver, a mission to clean up one of Baltimore Maryland&#8217;s worst neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>The article at the Los Angeles Times reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Operation Oliver, which began in July, is a one-year commitment to the neighborhood, the veterans say. It involves cleaning up alleys, rehabilitating homes, organizing volunteers and notifying police about illegal dumping sites and drug dealing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>To say the idea has caught on would be an understatement. Word of the intensive yearlong service project has spread throughout Maryland \u2014 and the nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tons of trash have been hauled away, homes have been rehabilitated, and the drug dealers and prostitutes are being\u00a0pushed out of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>These men have already served their country abroad. Now they are making a considerable difference at home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=95629c38-38db-457d-9d16-9729b8e3184a\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are people among us who practice Christmas all year long. The Los Angeles Times\u00a0posted a story about\u00a0some of them today. Earl Johnson, a former Army Ranger who served in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan, Rich Blake, 32, a Marine Corps &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11078\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1386,160,1637,1638],"class_list":["post-11078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-maryland","tag-operation-oliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11101,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11078\/revisions\/11101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}