{"id":1322,"date":"2008-03-10T22:56:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T02:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2008-03-10T22:56:13","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T02:56:13","slug":"british-soldier-awarded-military-cross-fought-off-150-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1322","title":{"rendered":"British Soldier Awarded Military Cross. Fought off 150 Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fusilier Damien Hields used his grenade machinegun to destroy seven Taliban positions before his ambushers realised he was their main threat. After peppering his vehicle with bullets, they hit the 24-year-old soldier. He had to be dragged off for treatment by his driver after he tried to continue fighting.<br \/>\n\u201cIt turned out the bullet had smashed a rib and gone out of me again without touching any internal organs which was very lucky. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article3511901.ece\">It was just a flesh wound really.<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\nThat is the Fighting Brit of fame and legend right there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fusilier Damien Hields used his grenade machinegun to destroy seven Taliban positions before his ambushers realised &hellip; <a title=\"British Soldier Awarded Military Cross. Fought off 150 Taliban\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1322\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">British Soldier Awarded Military Cross. Fought off 150 Taliban<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}