{"id":21673,"date":"2010-12-30T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21673"},"modified":"2010-12-30T10:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T14:05:02","slug":"vet-defends-dog-with-stolen-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21673","title":{"rendered":"Vet defends dog with stolen valor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Woods&#8217; dog, Mimi, attacked an 84-year-old man, so Woods defends his dog by telling the Fort Worth court that Mimi is a therapy dog to help treat Woods&#8217; PTSD from the Gulf War. Except that the Department of veterans&#8217; Affairs claims Woods never left the Continental United States while serving in the Arkansas National Guard. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/2010\/12\/28\/2731697\/fort-worth-says-it-will-keep-pursuing.html#my-headlines-default#ixzz19bTehEeZ\">Star-Telegram<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With help from an attorney, Woods quickly raised more than $17,000 through appeals on the Internet, claiming that the animal was a therapy dog helping Woods overcome injuries suffered in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>But WFAA\/Channel 8 reported Monday that Woods served in the Arkansas National Guard and that Veterans Affairs has no record of him having served overseas.<\/p>\n<p>Woods did not respond to phone calls seeking comment Tuesday, though he has previously denied that he told anyone the dog was his.<\/p>\n<p>His former attorney, Randy Turner, declined to comment other than to say that as of Tuesday morning his firm no longer represents Woods.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Robert for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Woods&#8217; dog, Mimi, attacked an 84-year-old man, so Woods defends his dog by telling the &hellip; <a title=\"Vet defends dog with stolen valor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21673\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vet defends dog with stolen valor<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673","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=21673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}