{"id":38385,"date":"2013-11-12T14:36:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T19:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38385"},"modified":"2013-11-12T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T19:38:44","slug":"vets-head-to-the-phillipines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38385","title":{"rendered":"Vets head to the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pinto Nag sends us a link to an NBC News article which noticed that US veterans, namely <a href=\"http:\/\/teamrubiconusa.org\/\">Team Rubicon<\/a> are headed to the Philippines to help in the relief efforts there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Team Rubicon, which is made up of military veterans who work with first responders, prepared packages of food, supplies and medical items over the weekend and will begin rebuilding communities throughout the Philippines, affiliate NBC News Los Angeles reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are going to be dying of thirst as they&#8217;re surrounded by water,&#8221; said team member Jacob Wood. &#8220;There&#8217;s a level of irony that&#8217;s just truly tragic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Team Rubicon members have been to floods, earthquake-ravaged Haiti, war zones like Pakistan and Sudan, and other places in need of aid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of hoisting a few with Team Rubicon members, and I smile every time I read about their latest exploits. They&#8217;re usually on the ground before the US government can get out of it&#8217;s own way. <a href=\"http:\/\/teamrubiconusa.org\/blog\/\">You can read about their progress at their blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pinto Nag sends us a link to an NBC News article which noticed that US veterans, &hellip; <a title=\"Vets head to the Philippines\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38385\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vets head to the Philippines<\/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":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38385","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=38385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}