{"id":1131,"date":"2011-10-21T08:59:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2014-04-03T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:01:14","slug":"the-field-marshall-ish-kabibble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"The Field Marshall Ish Kabibble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True.\u00a0 Nothing makes a man feel better than wearing a uniform!\u00a0 Few know of my military background. My Father\u2019s Grandfather served nobly with Chinese Gordon at Khartoum (he was his tailor).\u00a0 For skill and bravery under fire (he had to had to retrieve the General\u2019s jodhpurs from the Mahdist insurgents), he was awarded the Victoria Cross and made Knight of the British Empire.\u00a0 His later honors include: Order of Bath, Order of the Garter &amp; the Royal Order of Lox.\u00a0 With a long history in the service of arms, it is understandable that my Father was upset that I did not gain an appointment to West Point.\u00a0 But I did attend the Smedge College of Military Knowledge.\u00a0 After graduating with a degree (<i>with Honors<\/i>) in Obscure Mixology, I was posted to Ft. Jackson, SC for my active service.\u00a0 I was the lead bartender at the Officer\u2019s Club, where I quickly distinguished myself by producing what is still considered the finest Singapore Sling ever made.\u00a0 Although my pay grade was Sergeant, I saw steady advancement thru the ranks and retired from the Army with the <i>brevetted<\/i> rank of Field Marshal.\u00a0 My uniform design was a cross between the uniform worn by Harpo Marx in <i>Duck Soup<\/i> and the uniform worn by the legendary Raymond, Doorman of the Waldorf Astoria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ish-Kabibble.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1132\" alt=\"Ish Kabibble\" src=\"http:\/\/www.summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Ish-Kabibble.bmp\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True.\u00a0 Nothing makes a man feel better than wearing a uniform!\u00a0 Few know of my military background. My Father\u2019s Grandfather served nobly with Chinese Gordon at Khartoum (he was his tailor).\u00a0 For skill and bravery under fire (he had to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=1131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-of-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}