{"id":31797,"date":"2025-10-13T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=31797"},"modified":"2025-11-01T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T20:33:54","slug":"mail-call-happy-birthday-usn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/mail-call-happy-birthday-usn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail Call: Happy Birthday, USN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" class=\"wp-image-31799\" style=\"width: 500px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/101325-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/101325-1.jpg 1108w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/101325-1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/101325-1-496x281.jpg 496w, https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/101325-1-768x435.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Birthday, USN. Above, USS Constitution earns her call-sign as &#8220;Old Ironsides&#8221; in her battle against HMS Guerrier n 1812. There is some dispute abut who was operating on the high seas on this day some 250 years ago, but we will render this tribute to those who have served on the waves since before the formal declaration of Independence on the 4th of July, 1776.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"189\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/101325-2-189x281.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31800\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday, USN. Above, USS Constitution earns her call-sign as &#8220;Old Ironsides&#8221; in her battle against HMS Guerrier n 1812. There is some dispute abut who was operating on the high seas on this day some 250 years ago, but we will render this tribute to those who have served on the waves since before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-socotra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31803,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31797\/revisions\/31803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}