{"id":7278,"date":"2011-06-02T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T20:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7278"},"modified":"2011-06-02T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T18:56:37","slug":"obamas-honor-americas-veterans-on-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7278","title":{"rendered":"Obamas Honor America&#8217;s Veterans On Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212;<strong> President Barack Obama<\/strong> and <strong>First Lady<\/strong> <strong>Michelle Obama<\/strong> spent Memorial Day paying tribute to the military.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Obamas<\/strong> visited Arlington National Cemetery where the president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns.<\/p>\n<p>Following the ceremony, the president participated in the Memorial Day Service at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery along with <strong>Adm. Mike Mullen<\/strong>, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defense <strong>Secretary Robert Gates<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Obamas<\/strong> started the day hosting a breakfast for families who have lost loved ones in combat.<\/p>\n<p>Also Monday, the president introduced Army <strong>Gen. Martin Dempsey<\/strong> as his next choice to lead the Joint Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured: Pres. Barack Obama walks with Maj. Gen. Karl Horst, commander of the U. S. Army Military District of Washington, his wife Nancy, and first lady Michelle Obama before placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery, Monday, May 30, 2011. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama spent Memorial Day paying tribute to the military. The Obamas visited Arlington National Cemetery where the president participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknowns. Following the ceremony, the president participated in the Memorial Day Service at the Memorial Amphitheater at Arlington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}