{"id":34804,"date":"2025-03-02T14:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/the-military-spouses-building-businesses-in-the-desert-learning-to-stand-on-your-own-two-feet\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T14:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:25:05","slug":"the-military-spouses-building-businesses-in-the-desert-learning-to-stand-on-your-own-two-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/the-military-spouses-building-businesses-in-the-desert-learning-to-stand-on-your-own-two-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"The military spouses building businesses in the desert: \u2018learning to stand on your own two feet\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Twentynine Palms, California, these business owners have gained more than a job \u2013 they\u2019ve built a sense of identity<\/p>\n<p>The California desert, for 28-year-old Madie Chapman, was a shock to the system.<\/p>\n<p>Chapman became a desert resident last summer, when her husband, a field radio operator, was stationed at the Twentynine Palms combat center, the largest US Marine Corps training base in the world. Within just a few months of receiving orders, the couple moved with their three young children to the secluded outpost near Joshua Tree national park, joining the thousands of other active-duty service members and their families who live there.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/02\/military-spouses-small-business\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Twentynine Palms, California, these business owners have gained more than a job \u2013 they\u2019ve built a sense of identity The California desert, for 28-year-old Madie Chapman, was a shock to the system. Chapman became a desert resident last summer, when her husband, a field radio operator, was stationed at the Twentynine Palms combat center, &#8230; <a title=\"The military spouses building businesses in the desert: \u2018learning to stand on your own two feet\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/02\/the-military-spouses-building-businesses-in-the-desert-learning-to-stand-on-your-own-two-feet\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The military spouses building businesses in the desert: \u2018learning to stand on your own two feet\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}