{"id":253,"date":"2008-11-11T19:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/11\/11\/veterans-day-08\/"},"modified":"2014-12-14T18:47:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T18:47:19","slug":"veterans-day-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/2008\/11\/11\/veterans-day-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day ’08"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p> $\"\"$ <\/a>Best to all Vets out there\u2026.all who\u2019ve served, and all who currently are! Both of my granddads served in WWII and I think of them today. One other comes to mind today \u2014 Mr. Thomas Kustelski. His son Tom and I have known each other since the 6th grade \u2014 by far the oldest friendship I have. Yesterday was one of the toughest days for the elder Kustelski. He said goodbye and buried his great wife of 55 years, and mother of his nine children of which my buddy Tom is the youngest. Add to that \u2014 today\u2019s Mr. Kustelski\u2019s 76th birthday and he\u2019s a great American military veteran. As tough as yesterday was, today might be even tougher for him. So I\u2019m thinking of him.\n

The artwork is an oil painting\/shadowbox assemblage I did for REALMS OF FANTASY MAGAZINE several years ago. They asked me to illustrate a wartime ghost story called \u201cLast Tour of Duty\u201d by Devon Monk and this was my solution. Still one of my favorite early works\u2026<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Best to all Vets out there\u2026.all who\u2019ve served, and all who currently are! Both of my granddads served in WWII and I think of them today. One other comes to mind today \u2014 Mr. Thomas Kustelski. His son Tom and I have known each other since the 6th grade \u2014 by far the oldest friendship […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conventions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/LASTTOUR.jpg?fit=475%2C648","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5te7x-45","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnpicacio.com\/onthefront\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}