{"id":40283,"date":"2004-03-12T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-12T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/03\/12\/what-happens-to-those-to-any-soldier-care-packages\/"},"modified":"2004-03-12T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-12T06:58:00","slug":"what-happens-to-those-to-any-soldier-care-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040312-00\/?p=40283","title":{"rendered":"What happens to those &quot;To Any Soldier&quot; care packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  Commentator and novelist Christian Bauman  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/features\/feature.php?wfId=1751148\">  recalls the excitement of receiving mail from anonymous  well-wishers back home<\/a> during his deployment with the  U.S. Army in Somalia in the early 1990s.  <\/p>\n<p>  This was a fascinating listen.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"q\"><p>  The coup, of course, was getting a letter with a snapshot or  two inside.  I don&#8217;t know why, but the further west the return address,  the  more likely the envelope had a picture.  And the more north, the more likely the picture was,  shall we say, &#8220;revealing&#8221;.  Triangulate this equation,  and you discover that the girls in the northwest get a real  charge out of showing the troops exactly what it is they  are fighting for.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Make sure to stick to the end for the punch line.  (Every good story has a punch line.)  <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentator and novelist Christian Bauman recalls the excitement of receiving mail from anonymous well-wishers back home during his deployment with the U.S. Army in Somalia in the early 1990s. This was a fascinating listen. The coup, of course, was getting a letter with a snapshot or two inside. I don&#8217;t know why, but the further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-40283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Commentator and novelist Christian Bauman recalls the excitement of receiving mail from anonymous well-wishers back home during his deployment with the U.S. Army in Somalia in the early 1990s. This was a fascinating listen. The coup, of course, was getting a letter with a snapshot or two inside. I don&#8217;t know why, but the further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}