{"id":1029,"date":"2012-08-23T12:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T11:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2025-06-19T19:22:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T18:22:42","slug":"us-army-in-afghanistan-parodies-call-me-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"US Army in Afghanistan Parodies &#8220;Call Me Maybe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest effort by troops deployed overseas to blow off a little steam and connect with friends and family back home. &nbsp;Some may feel it&#8217;s inappropriate &#8211; but you have to come up with things like this to stay sane sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is their description:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A cover of &#8220;Call Me Maybe&#8221; performed by US Army Infantry Soldiers in Kunar Province, Afghanistan. Original by Carly Rae Jepsen. Directed, filmed, and edited by the troops as a morale boost for our Soldiers here and our families\/FRG back home. See you in just a few more months, and thanks for all your support!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Call Me Maybe Cover - Kunar, Afghanistan - US Army Soldiers\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8EjLbVmXIqg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest effort by troops deployed overseas to blow off a little steam and connect with friends and family back home. &nbsp;Some may feel it&#8217;s inappropriate &#8211; but you have to come up with things like this to stay sane sometimes. This is their description: A cover of &#8220;Call Me Maybe&#8221; performed by US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,70],"tags":[1790,73,565,564,563],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-random-musings","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-call-me-maybe","tag-parody","tag-soldiers"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5904,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}