{"id":30258,"date":"2012-06-05T08:46:07","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T12:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30258"},"modified":"2012-06-05T08:46:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T12:46:07","slug":"snap-fitness-founder-replaces-stolen-markers-in-mn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30258","title":{"rendered":"Snap Fitness founder replaces stolen markers in MN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lobster68w sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/157105385.html\">Minnesota Star Tribune<\/a> which reports that Peter Taunton, the founder and president of the Snap Fitness franchise, wrote a $7000 check to replace more than 200 bronze star markers which have been stolen from veterans cemeteries over the last few months.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It drives me crazy when people exercise unbelievably poor judgment and insensitivity,&#8221; he said Monday. &#8220;Those are people&#8217;s moms, dads and kids. For someone to come along and be so disrespectful. &#8230; That bronze star is our country&#8217;s token of appreciation for their effort in serving our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stealing from any gravesite is wrong, Taunton said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But the fact that these people were military vets, it&#8217;s wrong on so many other levels,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I came up from a very modest background,&#8221; Taunton said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve experienced more good fortune than anyone deserves &#8230; so I always feel when you&#8217;ve been blessed with such good fortune it&#8217;s important to pay it forward and give back.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And, that&#8217;s called being an American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lobster68w sends us a link from the Minnesota Star Tribune which reports that Peter Taunton, the &hellip; <a title=\"Snap Fitness founder replaces stolen markers in MN\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30258\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Snap Fitness founder replaces stolen markers in MN<\/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":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258","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=30258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}