{"id":22831,"date":"2011-04-06T08:20:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22831"},"modified":"2011-04-06T08:20:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:20:39","slug":"the-healing-power-of-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22831","title":{"rendered":"The healing power of cigarettes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who sent me <a href=\"http:\/\/marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/04\/marine-headshot-sniper-survive-040511w\/\">this article<\/a> in their email subject line reading &#8220;Marine takes sniper shot to the head and lights up a cigarette 15 minutes later&#8221;, so I just assume that the cigarette is the most important part of the story;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Early March 4 in Helmand province, Boothroyd, attached to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, was on a rooftop providing over-watch for a local security patrol. It was his first deployment. Insurgents opened fire, \u201cand I got hit by the first bullet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The bullet pierced his helmet. The Kevlar caught and turned the round, he said, \u201cso instead of going in and thrashing my skull,\u201d it entered through the neck and lodged itself above and behind his right ear<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m guessing that smoking a cigarette after getting shot in the head will save your life, judging by the importance of the cigarette in the story. I&#8217;m also assuming that smoking more cigarettes will prevent head shots, too. Maybe I&#8217;m wrong, but I&#8217;m not taking a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone who sent me this article in their email subject line reading &#8220;Marine takes sniper shot &hellip; <a title=\"The healing power of cigarettes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22831\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The healing power of cigarettes<\/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":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22831","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=22831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}