{"id":31745,"date":"2012-08-24T13:11:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T17:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31745"},"modified":"2012-08-24T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T17:34:00","slug":"marine-vetfree-lance-journalist-missing-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31745","title":{"rendered":"Marine vet\/free lance journalist missing in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khou.com\/news\/local\/Report-Journalist-Houston-native-missing-in-Syria-167310595.html\">McClatchy folks <\/a>report that they&#8217;ve lost contact with Austin Tice, who they say is one of their freelance journalists and a former Marine officer who left active duty in January to pursue a career in reporting. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He was one of the few American journalists reporting from inside Syria as the civil war there intensified.<\/p>\n<p>McClatchy spoke with Tice\u2019s parents, who live in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand Austin\u2019s passion to report on the struggle in Syria, and are proud of the work he is doing there. We trust that he is safe, appreciate every effort being made to locate him, and look forward to hearing from him very soon,\u201d Marc and Debra Tice said in a statement to the newspaper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope he&#8217;s OK because, aside from the obvious reasons, we need more military veterans like him reporting what they see around the world from our particular perspective and getting the truth out. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to AmyJ (not to be confused with ArmyJ) for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The McClatchy folks report that they&#8217;ve lost contact with Austin Tice, who they say is one &hellip; <a title=\"Marine vet\/free lance journalist missing in Syria\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31745\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine vet\/free lance journalist missing in Syria<\/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-31745","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\/31745","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=31745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}