{"id":17560,"date":"2017-11-13T21:03:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T11:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17560"},"modified":"2024-06-29T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T00:27:05","slug":"new-seaman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17560","title":{"rendered":"New Seaman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The grumpy Navy Master Chief saw a new face and shouted at him,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome here! What\u2019s your name, sailor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJames,\u201d the new seaman answered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen carefully sailor, I don\u2019t know what kind of bleeding-heart pansy crap they\u2019re teaching sailors in boot camp these days, but I don\u2019t call anyone by his first name,\u201d the chief scowled. \u201cIt their last names only; Carter, Davidson, Cooper, Jackson, whatever. And you are to refer to me as \u2018Master Chief.\u2019 Do I make myself clear?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAye, Aye, Master Chief!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, what\u2019s your last name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sailor sighed. \u201cDarling, My name is James Darling, Master Chief.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOkay, James, here\u2019s what I want you to do&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grumpy Navy Master Chief saw a new face and shouted at him, \u201cCome here! What\u2019s your name, sailor?\u201d \u201cJames,\u201d the new seaman answered. \u201cListen carefully sailor, I don\u2019t know what kind of bleeding-heart pansy crap they\u2019re teaching sailors in boot camp these days, but I don\u2019t call anyone by his first name,\u201d the chief &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17560\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Seaman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-humourhumor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51705,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17560\/revisions\/51705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}