{"id":201,"date":"2013-10-03T02:19:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/?p=201"},"modified":"2016-04-06T23:49:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T23:49:49","slug":"shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/03\/shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"I Still Love the USA Despite the Government Shut Down \u2013 Baltimore Military Homecoming Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This whole government shut down business and the inability of our elected leaders to work together is getting on my last nerve. Having said that, when I witness the joy that our returning military families have as they step through the airport doors into this country after having spent MONTHS and YEARS overseas, I am reminded why &#8211; even with all our problems &#8211; I wouldn&#8217;t want to live anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p>THANK YOU to all the men and women who CHOOSE to step up defend this country &#8211; and also to the families who support them!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.operationwelcomehomemd.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.operationwelcomehomemd.org<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"BWI,OWHMD,Operation Welcome Home MD,Robin Shotola,homecoming,military,www.shotola.com,\" alt=\"owhmd_9.16.13_0333_WEB.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/owhmd_9.16.13_0333_WEB.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"BWI,OWHMD,Operation Welcome Home MD,Robin Shotola,homecoming,military,www.shotola.com,\" alt=\"owhmd_9.16.13_0026_WEB.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/owhmd_9.16.13_0026_WEB.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"BWI,OWHMD,Operation Welcome Home MD,Robin Shotola,homecoming,military,www.shotola.com,\" alt=\"owhmd_9.16.13_0037_WEB.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/owhmd_9.16.13_0037_WEB.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"BWI,OWHMD,Operation Welcome Home MD,Robin Shotola,homecoming,military,www.shotola.com,\" alt=\"owhmd_9.16.13_0081_WEB.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/owhmd_9.16.13_0081_WEB.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"BWI,OWHMD,Operation Welcome Home MD,Robin Shotola,homecoming,military,www.shotola.com,\" alt=\"owhmd_9.16.13_0286_WEB.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/owhmd_9.16.13_0286_WEB.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"shotola_baltimore\" alt=\"shotola baltimore military homecoming photographer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/owhmd_9.16.13_0262_WEB.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"shotola_baltimore\" alt=\"shotola baltimore military homecoming photographer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/owhmd_9.16.13_0291_WEB.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This whole government shut down business and the inability of our elected leaders to work together is getting on my last nerve. Having said that, when I witness the joy that our returning military families have as they step through the airport doors into this country after having spent MONTHS and YEARS overseas, I am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,20,21,32,24,17,173,34,33,37,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-owhmd","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-bwi","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-homecoming","13":"tag-maryland","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-photographer","16":"tag-shutdown","17":"tag-troops","18":"tag-volunteer","19":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/owhmd_9.16.13_0286_WEB.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3jeT6-shutdown","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5226,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/5226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}