{"id":17257,"date":"2018-11-12T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=17257"},"modified":"2018-11-12T15:42:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T20:42:36","slug":"is-there-something-magic-about-tactical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=17257","title":{"rendered":"Is there something magic about &#8220;tactical&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;here&#8217;s the first installment of my mental cleaning and it starts with a question: Is there something magical about tactical? If you&#8217;ve seen any daytime tv, you&#8217;ve seen ads for tactical lanterns, flashlights, sunglasses, and even visors for you car&#8230;and now let me add a new one to that list&#8230;tactical hat. As you know, I just bought a new fleece hat to wear in the cold on the bike and I just looked at the tag that came with it&#8230;it&#8217;s funny enough that the company that makes it is called Condor&#8230;I&#8217;m sure trying to invoke the image of the raptor&#8230;but the funniest thing is the description of the hat: Watch cap, tactical. Now, what the hell is tactical about a damn fleece hat? I wonder if it&#8217;s all a part of the military fetishism that I have written about before where people in the military are held up to be heroes when there is no reason for it&#8230;now, some of them are, but not all&#8230;all I know is that I don&#8217;t feel like a Navy Seal or a Ranger wearing the hat&#8230;but, it is warm so I guess that&#8217;s something&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;here&#8217;s the first installment of my mental cleaning and it starts with a question: Is there something magical about tactical? If you&#8217;ve seen any daytime tv, you&#8217;ve seen ads for tactical lanterns, flashlights, sunglasses, and even visors for you car&#8230;and now let me add a new one to that list&#8230;tactical hat. As you know, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=17257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is there something magic about &#8220;tactical&#8221;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[39],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-17257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17259,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17257\/revisions\/17259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}