{"id":1309,"date":"2006-01-10T21:53:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T03:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2006-01-10T22:20:34","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T04:20:34","slug":"michael-yon-call-for-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Michael Yon:  Call for Volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelyon.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/call-for-volunteers-frontline-forum.html\">&#8220;Retired Military Persons Needed&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michael Yon is back from Iraq, but he wants the stories from the ground to continue.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m back in the United States for a time, trying wring every bit of information of the war out of the news, only to come up dry most days, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become clear that in just under a year, the media gap has morphed into a chasm. Before this thing becomes a black hole, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for a few good men and women to put their military experience and expertise to use in an operation that can create an alternative channel that will allow frontline information to break through and be heard.<\/p>\n<p>This site gets much traffic from all around the world, from people searching for news from Iraq, making it an ideal place to host stories from deployed forces in harm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way. Not comments, not those endlessly forwarded unattributed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153true\u00e2\u20ac\u009d stories that always seem airbrushed, but real stories about the ground situation. In my travels I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve met many budding writers who are now wearing boots and carrying rifles, and I found their stories so compelling that I want the world to see.<\/p>\n<p>One antidote to the no news but bad news flu would be to let more of these voices be heard. A simple \u00e2\u20ac\u0153call for stories,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d would probably stuff the inbox with emailed submissions. Having already made my ongoing inability to read email well known on these pages, any information system predicated on my reading emails would clog before it launched. This is where the volunteers come in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If qualified and interested, go check out Yon&#8217;s call to arms &#8230; err, keyboards.  Hat tip to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatguy.com\/\">Fat Guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Retired Military Persons Needed&#8221; Michael Yon is back from Iraq, but he wants the stories from the ground to continue. Now that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m back in the United States for a time, trying wring every bit of information of the war out of the news, only to come up dry most days, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s become clear that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-media","category-military","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}