{"id":14188,"date":"2010-10-24T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=14188"},"modified":"2010-10-17T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T20:06:21","slug":"the-sunday-punch-us-air-forces-the-bats-of-okinawa-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/the-sunday-punch-us-air-forces-the-bats-of-okinawa-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Punch: US Air Force&#8217;s The Bats of Okinawa, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/zombieianbrooks\/the-batcave-okinawa-japan-1ldk\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/the-batcave-okinawa-japan-26598-1287215824-17-e1287345762290.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"They brought out the signal.\" width=\"550\" height=\"330\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14189\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe US Air Force has two squadrons in Okinawa, Japan: the Reds and the Blues. The Blues are colloquially known as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/44th_Fighter_Squadron\" class=\"external external_icon\">The Bats<\/a>, and reds as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/67th_Fighter_Squadron\" class=\"external external_icon\">the Cocks<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/zombieianbrooks\/the-batcave-okinawa-japan-1ldk\" class=\"external external_icon\">buzzfeed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/reddit.com\/comments\/drmq8\/forget_the_hangars_of_f15_and_f22_fighters_the_us\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force has two squadrons in Okinawa, Japan: the Reds and the Blues. The Blues are colloquially known as The Bats, and reds as the Cocks. via buzzfeed, reddit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[3460,3457,3461,2702,3458,3459,3456],"class_list":["post-14188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-only-in-japan","tag-bat-signal","tag-okinawa","tag-secret-weapons","tag-sunday-punch","tag-the-batcave","tag-the-bats","tag-us-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14190,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14188\/revisions\/14190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}