Just the other day, I submitted my request to the Army to retire next July. I thought it would take a few weeks to get a response, but low and behold, a week later, I now have my approved retirement orders in hand. This all being said, it really opened my eyes that my life is about to change very drastically from what I have become used to over the last 21 years.<\/p>\n
That all being said, I decided that I would try to post either a photo, story or something about my time while serving in the Army. Let’s see how long I can keep it up before I run out of stuff to talk about.<\/p>\n
Starting with today, I put up a simple countdown timer that leads to the day I will actually retire from the Army. That day is 22 years to the day that I signed up, July 31 1990.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just the other day, I submitted my request to the Army to retire next July. I thought it would take a few weeks to get a response, but low and behold, a week later, I now have my approved retirement orders in hand. This all being said, it really opened my eyes that my life is about to change very drastically from what I have become used to over the last 21 years. That all being said, I decided that I would try to post either a photo, story or something about my time while serving in the Army. Let’s see how long I can keep it up before I run out of stuff to talk about. Starting with today, I put up a simple countdown timer that leads to the day I will actually retire from the Army. That day is 22 years to the day that I signed up, July 31 1990.","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dmpjporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}