{"id":225546,"date":"2026-05-13T08:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225546"},"modified":"2026-05-13T08:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T08:55:06","slug":"jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=225546","title":{"rendered":"Jamaica-born US soldier learns harsh lessons from Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Jamaica-born US Army Specialist, war has a way of stripping things down to their most basic truth.<br \/>\n&#8220;People talk about war like it&#8217;s strategy or politics,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But when you&#8217;re the one standing there in the middle of it, you realise it&#8217;s really about consequence.&#8221;<br \/>\nFor the 28-year-old native of Spanish Town&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jamaica-star.com\/article\/news\/20260313\/jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-middle-east\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Jamaica-born US Army Specialist, war has a way of stripping things down<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east.jpg",250,188,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east.jpg",250,188,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east.jpg",250,188,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east.jpg",250,188,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east.jpg",250,188,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east.jpg",250,188,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east.jpg",250,188,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east.jpg",250,188,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/225546-jamaica-born-us-soldier-learns-harsh-lessons-from-middle-east.jpg",250,188,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/225547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}