{"id":29936,"date":"2012-05-14T08:52:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T12:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29936"},"modified":"2012-05-14T12:15:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T16:15:39","slug":"veteran-teaches-gangmembers-a-hard-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29936","title":{"rendered":"Veteran teaches gangmembers a hard lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streetsweeper sends us a link to a article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeleytribune.com\/article\/20120509\/NEWS\/705099976\/1005&#038;parentprofile=1001\">Colorado Greeley Tribune <\/a> the heart warming story of two gang members who thought that they were going to beat up a gay fellow who turned out to be 24-year-old Michael Lamonday \u2014 a business student at Aims Community College, a twice-deployed Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran, and a newlywed.<\/p>\n<p>They cornered him in the bathroom of a bar and had their asses handed to them, which made arresting them relatively easy for the local cops;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Both of the alleged attackers wound up in the hospital with injuries from the scuffle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>As [Lamonday and his friend] left the bathroom, they said Meza and Tapia were attempting to instigate a larger group to go after them and chase them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lamonday was just trying to avoid pissing off his new wife;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was just minding my own business,\u201d Lamonday said. \u201cOne of the things, my wife doesn\u2019t like very much, is if someone insults me, I\u2019m usually the first to say something. I wasn\u2019t trying to look for trouble. I was letting them know I\u2019m not a homo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lamonday and his friend first contacted Lamonday\u2019s wife, who called police, then took them to the ER. When they arrived, Tapia and Meza were already there, one with a dislocated shoulder, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cuz wives are tougher to deal with than a gang of thugs, trust me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streetsweeper sends us a link to a article from the Colorado Greeley Tribune the heart warming &hellip; <a title=\"Veteran teaches gangmembers a hard lesson\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29936\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veteran teaches gangmembers a hard lesson<\/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-29936","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\/29936","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=29936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}