{"id":72215,"date":"2017-08-27T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T20:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/mattis-to-troops-hold-the-line-until-u-s-is-less-divided"},"modified":"2017-08-27T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T20:02:37","slug":"mattis-to-troops-hold-the-line-until-u-s-is-less-divided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/mattis-to-troops-hold-the-line-until-u-s-is-less-divided","title":{"rendered":"Mattis to troops: \u201cHold the line\u201d until U.S. is less divided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mattis-to-troops-hold-the-line-until-u-s-is-less-divided2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, 66, a retired Marine four-star general, in impromptu remarks to troops abroad, in a Facebook video:<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good to see you all out here, young men and women. For those of you that I haven\u2019t met, my name\u2019s Mattis. I work at the Department of Defense, obviously\u2026 And thank you for being out here, OK? I know at times you wonder if anybody knows\u2026 The only way this great big experiment you and I call America is going to survive is if we got tough hombres like you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re a great example for our country right now. It\u2019s got a few problems. You know it and I know it. It\u2019s got problems that we don\u2019t have in the military.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/mattis-to-troops-hold-the-line-until-u-s-is-less-divided-2477420259.html?xrs=RebelMouse_fb&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fbsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic\">https:\/\/www.axios.com\/mattis-to-troops-hold-the-line-until-u...gn=organic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, 66, a retired Marine four-star general, in impromptu remarks to troops abroad, in a Facebook video: It\u2019s good to see you all out here, young men and women. For those of you that I haven\u2019t met, my name\u2019s Mattis. I work at the Department of Defense, obviously\u2026 And thank you for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}