{"id":2032,"date":"2005-06-25T23:53:57","date_gmt":"2005-06-26T04:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/recruiting-grandma\/"},"modified":"2005-06-25T23:53:57","modified_gmt":"2005-06-26T04:53:57","slug":"recruiting-grandma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/recruiting-grandma\/","title":{"rendered":"recruiting grandma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in a critical follow-up to <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/the_pentagon_target_list.html\">this post<\/a> about the pentagon targetting teenagers with private-industry marketing firms,  we have an interesting development from arkansas&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/fea\/breakroom\/offbeat\/stories\/062405dnnatseabee.3e7e23fb.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Granny chooses not to be a Seabee<\/a> [ap via wfaa.com,  2005.06.24]<\/div>\n<p>MAGNOLIA, Ark.\u2014 At age 81, Fola Coats might seem a little old to join the Navy. But the great-grandmother recently received a letter inviting her to enlist in the Seabees of the Naval Reserve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI laughed when I got (the letter),\u201d she said. \u201cI told (my family), I can&#8217;t wait to get my uniform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coats&#8217; husband served in World War II and two of her sons were in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess they figured we were a great military family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The letter suggests she should volunteer for the Seabees, supporting Navy construction needs with a specialty rating of builder, construction electrician, construction mechanic, engineering aide, equipment operator, steelworker or utility worker.<\/p>\n<p>Coats said the letter has been good for laughs for her whole family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the worst part of all of this is I don&#8217;t even like water,\u201d she said. \u201cI won&#8217;t even go swimming. That would be a little difficult when I get on that boat and get way out in the ocean.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>remember, i said something about military precision?  there you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in a critical follow-up to this post about the pentagon targetting teenagers with private-industry marketing firms, we have an interesting development from arkansas&#8230; Granny chooses not to be a Seabee [ap via wfaa.com, 2005.06.24] MAGNOLIA, Ark.\u2014 At age 81, Fola Coats might seem a little old to join the Navy. But the great-grandmother recently received [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}