{"id":277,"date":"2008-12-05T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T11:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:49:31","slug":"marine-corps-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/2008\/12\/05\/marine-corps-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the theme of balls, here is a photo from the Marine Corps Ball. \u00a0The Marine Corps Ball is an important embassy tradition. \u00a0Almost all U.S. embassies worldwide are protected by a detachment of Marine Security Guards. \u00a0Every November U.S. embassies around the world hold Marine Corps Birthday Balls to celebrate the founding of the U.S. Marine Corps on November 10, 1775 and to honor the Marines who protect us. \u00a0It is always a fun occasion. \u00a0Here&#8217;s a photo of Tatyana and I from this year&#8217;s ball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scan0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278\" title=\"scan0001\" src=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scan0001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scan0001.jpg 434w, http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/scan0001-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the theme of balls, here is a photo from the Marine Corps Ball. \u00a0The Marine Corps Ball is an important embassy tradition. \u00a0Almost all U.S. embassies worldwide are protected by a detachment of Marine Security Guards. \u00a0Every November U.S. embassies around the world hold Marine Corps Birthday Balls to celebrate the founding of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,28,18],"tags":[154,23,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5128,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/memmott.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}