{"id":2422,"date":"2015-01-08T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2015-01-08T11:56:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T09:56:26","slug":"the-origin-of-commissioned-officer-insignias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=2422","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of Commissioned Officer Insignias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The young Ensign approached the crusty old Chief and asked him about the origin of the commissioned office insignias.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, Ensign, it&#8217;s history and tradition.  First, we give you a gold bar representing that you&#8217;re valuable BUT malleable.  The silver bar of a Lieutenant Junior Grade represents value, but less malleable.  When you make Lieutenant, you&#8217;re twice as valuable so we give you two silver bars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a Captain, you soar over military masses, hence the eagle. As an Admiral, you&#8217;re obviously a star.  That answer your question?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, but what about Commanders and Lieutenant Commanders?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that goes waaaaaay back in history.  Back to the Garden of Eden even.  You see, we&#8217;ve always covered our pricks with leaves&#8230; &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young Ensign approached the crusty old Chief and asked him about the origin of the commissioned office insignias. &#8220;Well, Ensign, it&#8217;s history and tradition. First, we give you a gold bar representing that you&#8217;re valuable BUT malleable. The silver bar of a Lieutenant Junior Grade represents value, but less malleable. When you make Lieutenant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1013],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mil","tag-military-officers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}