{"id":4059,"date":"2016-05-23T06:59:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=4059"},"modified":"2016-05-23T06:59:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T13:59:19","slug":"veterans-are-a-welcome-sight-at-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/23\/veterans-are-a-welcome-sight-at-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Are A Welcome Sight At Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[Honored to see these veterans and their wives at Road 2016:<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2016\/veterans-are-a-welcome-sight-at-road\/attachment\/212\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4062\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4062\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/212-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"212\" width=\"599\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a>\nLee and Ginger Ashworth are from Beaverton, Oregon. Road 2016 was the 7<sup>th<\/sup> year in a row that they have visited Road. It is their tradition to come to the show. They like to see the \u201cvariety of quilts\u201d and \u201ctalk to all the people.\u201d Because they travel somewhere on Route 66 each year, they really enjoyed the <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/get-your-kicks-with-route-66-exhibit\/\">Route 66 Special Exhibit<\/a> in 2013. Ginger has been quilting for 25 years and Lee is a retired corporal in the US Navy.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2016\/veterans-are-a-welcome-sight-at-road\/attachment\/007\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4063\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/007-703x1024.jpg\" alt=\"007\" width=\"518\" height=\"755\" \/><\/a>\nJim and Cathie are from Ridgecrest, California. Jim also served in the Navy. He served for 22 years. Cathie has been coming to Road for the past 5 years with her guild, the High Desert Quilt Guild. One year, Cathie was in a wheelchair and couldn\u2019t take the guild bus so Jim drove her to the show. He has been back to the show ever since. \u00a0This year, Cathie got the dates of the show mixed up and they accidentally came <strong>the weekend before!!! <\/strong>They decided to stay in Ontario for the weekend before heading home. Even with a rotator cuff issue and her right hip and left leg injured, Cathie and Jim returned the <strong>128 miles one way trip\u00a0<\/strong>so they wouldn\u2019t miss the show<strong>. <\/strong>Jim says, \u201cI like to support the quilter.\u201d We are glad he does!!]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[1099,1346,1360],"class_list":["post-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-2016","tag-road-2016","tag-us-navy","tag-veterans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}