{"id":36561,"date":"2013-07-09T08:26:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36561"},"modified":"2013-07-09T08:34:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T12:34:28","slug":"sfc-marshall-snugglebear-welch-the-armys-friendliest-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36561","title":{"rendered":"SFC Marshall \u2018Snugglebear\u2019 Welch; the Army&#8217;s friendliest soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.duffelblog.com\/2013\/07\/armys-friendliest-soldier\/\">The Duffel Blog<\/a> has some fun with a character who you might recognize;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a gripping new tell-all memoir, Army Sgt. 1st Class Marshall \u2018Snugglebear\u2019 Welch has revealed that over the course of his three deployments to Afghanistan, he has accumulated an incredible tally of more than 2,700 confirmed friends on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release from his publisher, Welch estimated his friend-count by keeping a logbook tally of friend requests and care packages received.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome days I got so many of them I couldn\u2019t keep count \u2013 I had to go on a \u2018best-guess\u2019 type of estimate,\u201d Welch told reporters. Detractors, however, believe that the numbers may be padded for publicity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Greg for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duffel Blog has some fun with a character who you might recognize; In a gripping &hellip; <a title=\"SFC Marshall \u2018Snugglebear\u2019 Welch; the Army&#8217;s friendliest soldier\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36561\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SFC Marshall \u2018Snugglebear\u2019 Welch; the Army&#8217;s friendliest soldier<\/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":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36561","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=36561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}