{"id":2635,"date":"2020-01-04T01:16:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T07:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertjsmithtx.com\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2020-01-04T01:20:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T07:20:08","slug":"veterans-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjsmithtx.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/04\/veterans-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the issues that I ran on in 2017 was improving veteran&#8217;s services in Garland. 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