{"id":36355,"date":"2013-06-21T18:33:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36355"},"modified":"2013-06-21T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T22:37:03","slug":"glen-coffee-from-the-nfl-to-fryar-drop-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36355","title":{"rendered":"Glen Coffee from the NFL to Fryar Drop Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Glen-Coffee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Glen-Coffee-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"Glen Coffee\" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Glen-Coffee-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Glen-Coffee.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Preston and Andy sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/blogs\/ncaaf-dr-saturday\/former-alabama-star-back-glen-coffee-graduate-u-141026022.html\">links to the story of Glen Coffee<\/a>, the former 49ers running back for whom the NFL didn&#8217;t give him thrills &#8211; so he joined the Army. He is slated to graduate from the Army&#8217;s Basic Airborne Course today on his way to Fort Bragg and Special Forces training;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>    \u201cI&#8217;ve always considered myself a warrior, somebody who would fight for what he believed in,\u201d Coffee told AL.com. \u201cIt hit me like, \u2018What do you think the military does and what do you think the military is full of? Warriors. All of a sudden, I had this respect for the military and I just realized that there is no America without the men and women who serve this country.<\/p>\n<p>    \u201cI figured that if I&#8217;m able, the Lord&#8217;s blessed me with an able body while I&#8217;m young, to get out there and get dirty.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome and good luck, Glen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston and Andy sent us links to the story of Glen Coffee, the former 49ers running &hellip; <a title=\"Glen Coffee from the NFL to Fryar Drop Zone\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36355\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Glen Coffee from the NFL to Fryar Drop Zone<\/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-36355","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\/36355","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=36355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}