{"id":3534,"date":"2008-06-15T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2008-06-15T21:45:17","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T02:45:17","slug":"operation_bubba_gump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/operation_bubba_gump.html","title":{"rendered":"Operation Bubba Gump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06152008\/news\/regionalnews\/an_army_of_fun_115560.htm\">The U.S. Army is preparing for its full-on Toys &#8216;R Us Times Square experience<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In August, the military plans to open its first Army Experience Center, a combination recruiting center\/video arcade\/retail store to promote serving your country.<\/p>\n<p>Rumored to becoming to Times Square, it&#8217;ll be like the Disney Store, except with guns and camouflage.<\/p>\n<p>The 14,500-square-foot center will be a multimedia extravaganza with high-tech gadgetry, including flight simulators and life-size soldier video games.<\/p>\n<p>That person greeting you at the door? That&#8217;s an actual Army officer.<\/p>\n<p>While the Army will sell a small amount of merchandise at the venue, the focus is on building &#8220;brand experi ences&#8221; that give poten tial recruits a taste of military service.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Army is preparing for its full-on Toys &#8216;R Us Times Square experience: In August, the military plans to open its first Army Experience Center, a combination recruiting center\/video arcade\/retail store to promote serving your country. Rumored to becoming to Times Square, it&#8217;ll be like the Disney Store, except with guns and camouflage. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project_mersh","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}