{"id":36334,"date":"2013-06-20T16:26:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36334"},"modified":"2013-06-20T16:26:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T20:26:45","slug":"daran-wankum-cancer-cant-stop-him-from-being-a-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36334","title":{"rendered":"Daran Wankum; cancer can&#8217;t stop him from being a Marine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daran-Wankum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daran-Wankum-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Daran Wankum\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daran-Wankum-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Daran-Wankum-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo By: Cpl. Mondo Lescaud<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Andy sends a link to the story of Daran Wankum who dreamed of being a Marine until he was diagnosed with brain cancer. While he went through surgery, the recruiters at the station where he was recruited stood guard outside his door and then got him to DC to become an &#8220;honorary Marine&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/screen.yahoo.com\/cancer-cant-stop-merriam-mans-034156811.html?format=embed&#038;player_autoplay=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the caption under the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marines.mil\/Photos.aspx?igphoto=2000025422\">Marine Corps photo <\/a>above;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arlington Va. U.S. &#8211; Daran Wankum, the 22nd honorary Marine in Marine Corps history, and 1st Sgt. Charles Peoples, Marine Barracks Washington, D.C., Guard Company first sergeant, march up to the Marine Corps War Memorial during a wreath-laying ceremony for Wankum in Arlington, Va., June 13. Wankum was named an honorary Marine on June 11&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo By: Cpl. Mondo Lescaud Andy sends a link to the story of Daran Wankum who &hellip; <a title=\"Daran Wankum; cancer can&#8217;t stop him from being a Marine\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36334\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daran Wankum; cancer can&#8217;t stop him from being a Marine<\/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":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334","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=36334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}