{"id":31840,"date":"2012-08-31T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31840"},"modified":"2012-08-31T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:42:41","slug":"dont-bring-pruning-shears-to-a-stapler-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31840","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t bring pruning shears to a stapler fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2012\/08\/ap-army-veteran-foils-robbery-083112\/\">AP story<\/a> about David Kassner, a retired Army staff sergeant and veteran of the war against terror who was running a service station in Bellingham, WA when he was confronted by an unnamed 6 foot-tall man in a ski mask using pruning shears as a weapon;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The robber demanded money, but Kassner refused. When the masked man grabbed the cash register and tried to take the whole thing, the clerk grabbed a nearby hammer-style stapler and swung it at the man\u2019s head. Kassner missed that target but said he must have made contact because the man ran off empty-handed, clutching his wrist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We here at TAH love the fact that veterans are saving the world from itself a little bit at a time and we commend SSG Kassner for securing his area of operations in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us a link to an AP story about David Kassner, a retired Army &hellip; <a title=\"Don&#8217;t bring pruning shears to a stapler fight\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31840\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t bring pruning shears to a stapler fight<\/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-31840","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\/31840","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=31840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}