{"id":21179,"date":"2010-11-15T11:05:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21179"},"modified":"2010-11-15T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T15:46:42","slug":"iraq-vet-steps-up-for-step-godfather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21179","title":{"rendered":"Iraq vet steps up for step-grandfather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mj3654252.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21180 aligncenter\" title=\"mj3654252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/mj3654252.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/morningjournal.com\/articles\/2010\/11\/15\/news\/mj3654252.txt\">BooRadley sends this story<\/a> from her hometown about an Iraq veteran who donated his kidney to his step-grandfather;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy daughter was going to be a donor and went through all the tests, but they said she was a bad candidate,\u201d the 62-year-old Jackson said. \u201cActually, I really stopped looking. I was just going to wait and see because I was on the transplant list. I wasn\u2019t going to ask anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without Jackson knowing, Foor thought he would be tested and learned he would be a good match. Otherwise, Jackson would have continued with home dialysis and waited an estimated five years on the transplant list for a match.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BooRadley sends this story from her hometown about an Iraq veteran who donated his kidney to &hellip; <a title=\"Iraq vet steps up for step-grandfather\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21179\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iraq vet steps up for step-grandfather<\/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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179","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=21179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}