{"id":13529,"date":"2026-04-07T18:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/i-served-in-the-army-40-years-and-i-have-not-been-in-a-predicament-like-this-ret-lt-gen\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T18:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T18:56:25","slug":"i-served-in-the-army-40-years-and-i-have-not-been-in-a-predicament-like-this-ret-lt-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/videos\/i-served-in-the-army-40-years-and-i-have-not-been-in-a-predicament-like-this-ret-lt-gen\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I served in the Army 40 years and I have not been in a predicament like this&#8217;: Ret. Lt. Gen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from Reddit&#8217;s front page &#8211; thousands of upvotes can&#8217;t be wrong.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin:1.5em 0;text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/e1E93HwfXsan9gKwY5pWU-wIgkhkdQzuLxiSaFqWR10.jpeg?width=320&#038;crop=smart&#038;auto=webp&#038;s=688d7da52822e29426d41942ce1f783b48a6c3e2\" alt=\"&#039;I served in the Army 40 years and I have not been in a predicament like this&#039;: Ret. Lt. Gen.\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;border-radius:12px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<p>And that&#8217;s your daily dose of internet culture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#888\"><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1sf243g\/i_served_in_the_army_40_years_and_i_have_not_been\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">r\/videos<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh from Reddit&#8217;s front page &#8211; thousands of upvotes can&#8217;t be wrong. And that&#8217;s your daily dose of internet culture&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sweary_post_type":"meme","_sweary_source":"reddit_videos","_sweary_video_url":"","_sweary_youtube_id":"","_sweary_gif_url":"","_sweary_source_url":"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/videos\/comments\/1sf243g\/i_served_in_the_army_40_years_and_i_have_not_been\/","_sweary_views":27716,"_sweary_digest_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweary.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}