{"id":31520,"date":"2012-08-15T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31520"},"modified":"2012-08-15T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T10:30:42","slug":"staff-sgt-ryan-cross-saving-the-world-one-person-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31520","title":{"rendered":"Staff Sgt. Ryan Cross; saving the world one person at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/2nd-cavalry-soldier-helps-save-woman-in-fiery-accident-1.185704\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> tells the story of Staff Sgt. Ryan Cross (2nd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Vilseck) who on his way home from work in Germany when he came across an accident between a car and a motorcycle. The medics were treating the motorcyclist, but an elderly woman behind the wheel of the car looked to be in shock and stuck in her car while the engine was in flames;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the other driver who stopped to help, Fabian Schr\u00f6dl, a 19-year-old German from the city of Creu\u00dfen, Cross helped pull the woman out through the passenger door, as the driver-side door was damaged and would not open. The car was engulfed a minute or two later, Cross said.<\/p>\n<p>[German police officer Martin] Hasler said he arrived on the scene to find Cross tending to the woman while Schr\u00f6dl stayed with the motorcyclist, a 17-year-old, who was taken from the scene with life-threatening injuries. Flames from the car were several feet high, he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stars &#038; Stripes tells the story of Staff Sgt. Ryan Cross (2nd Squadron, 2nd Cavalry &hellip; <a title=\"Staff Sgt. Ryan Cross; saving the world one person at a time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31520\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Staff Sgt. Ryan Cross; saving the world one person at a time<\/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-31520","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\/31520","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=31520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}