{"id":38744,"date":"2013-12-06T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T14:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38744"},"modified":"2013-12-06T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T14:42:37","slug":"karyna-douglass-new-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38744","title":{"rendered":"Karyna Douglass, new recruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=38745\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Karyna-Douglass-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Karyna Douglass\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Karyna-Douglass-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Karyna-Douglass-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Karyna-Douglass.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Stuart sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kptv.com\/story\/24128976\/mission-complete-100-pounds-gone-us-army-here-she-comes?app&#038;hpt=us_bn10\">the story of Karyna Douglass<\/a> who wanted to join the Army, but she was overweight, according to the Army, so she started on a new mission &#8211; be Army Strong;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My physical activity consisted of me walking to the store to get candy,&#8221; Douglass said. So she decided to get serious.<\/p>\n<p>She started working out with a Beaverton Sergeant. Every day, she worked out two or three times and ate the right foods.<\/p>\n<p>After spending so much time with soldiers, the 23-year-old decided the army was for her.<\/p>\n<p>Douglass said, &#8220;I fell in love with their world. I fell in love with the bonds that I created with these people. I fell in love for what they stand for.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/KPTV.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=275156;hostDomain=www.kptv.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9600526;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=Video%2520Player;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kptv.com\" title=\"KPTV - FOX 12\">KPTV &#8211; FOX 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;ll probably make a good soldier, too, because she had to earn her place among them. She lost 110 pounds over 15 months and the article says that she&#8217;ll be enlisting in a week or so. Good luck, Karyna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart sends us a link to the story of Karyna Douglass who wanted to join the &hellip; <a title=\"Karyna Douglass, new recruit\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38744\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Karyna Douglass, new recruit<\/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-38744","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\/38744","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=38744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}