{"id":20916,"date":"2010-10-21T06:31:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T10:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20916"},"modified":"2010-10-21T06:31:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T10:31:19","slug":"marinesimi-valley-cop-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20916","title":{"rendered":"Marine\/Simi Valley cop down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spockgirl sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2010\/oct\/20\/marine-from-simi-valley-killed-in-afghanistan\/#ixzz12zHrfDtU - vcstar.com \">a link to the news<\/a> that a Simi Valley cop who also became a Marine was laid low by a pair of insurgent bombs in Helmand Province this week;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joshua Cullins didn\u2019t deliberate long on what job he\u2019d tackle when he joined the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wanted to do what he could do to help save lives,\u201d said his friend and fellow Marine Joseph Seymour. \u201cThe one thing at that time of the war that was the most imminent threat was IEDs,\u201d short for improvised explosive devices, or roadside bombs.<\/p>\n<p>So Cullins, of Simi Valley, learned the dangerous world of diffusing explosive devices. The staff sergeant dismantled countless bombs during his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, all with a big smile on his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could put him in the desert in the worst conditions and he would find something to smile about,\u201d Seymour remembers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The bombs were paired so that the second one would get the folks who showed up to investigate the first. Thank you, Joshua, you&#8217;re job is done now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spockgirl sends us a link to the news that a Simi Valley cop who also became &hellip; <a title=\"Marine\/Simi Valley cop down\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20916\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine\/Simi Valley cop down<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}