{"id":36589,"date":"2013-07-11T06:09:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T10:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36589"},"modified":"2013-07-11T06:09:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T10:09:24","slug":"spc-michael-mechaca-saving-the-world-one-person-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36589","title":{"rendered":"SPC Michael Mechaca; saving the world one person at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zedechek send us <a href=\"http:\/\/dcist.com\/2013\/07\/video_man_in_wheelchair_falls_onto.php\">the story of Army Specialist Michael Mechaca<\/a> who happened to be on the scene at DC&#8217;s Metro Center subway station when a man in a wheelchair toppled over the edge of the platform onto the tracks;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NBC4 has the surveillance video, which shows a man go off the platform onto the tracks around 8 a.m. Almost immediately, four men jumped onto the tracks to pull the man to safety. The first bystander to jump was Army Spc. Michael Mechaca, who told NBC4 he was just doing the &#8220;courteous thing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><embed width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nbcwashington.com\/designvideo\/embeddedPlayer.swf\" flashvars=\"v=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcwashington.com%2Fi%2Fembed_new%2F%3Fcid%3D214853801%26path=\/news\/local\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" AllowScriptAccess=\"always\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zedechek send us the story of Army Specialist Michael Mechaca who happened to be on the &hellip; <a title=\"SPC Michael Mechaca; saving the world one person at a time\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36589\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPC Michael Mechaca; saving the world one person at a time<\/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-36589","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\/36589","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=36589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}