{"id":39568,"date":"2014-01-30T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39568"},"modified":"2014-01-30T16:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:42:44","slug":"omar-bermejo-marine-vet-goes-to-sochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39568","title":{"rendered":"Omar Bermejo; Marine vet goes to Sochi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News sends us a link to their continuing series of stories about veterans &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2014\/01\/sochi-bound-marine-vet-strives-for-gold-in-paralympics\/\">Standing Up For Heroes<\/a>&#8220;. This installment is about Omar Bermejo, a Marine veteran with 9 years of service. He lost his arm in a motorcycle accident after he had completed four tours of Iraq. Now he&#8217;s going to Sochi for the Team USA Paralympic Nordic skiers in the biathlon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bermejo started skiing as part of his physical therapy. In the beginning he didn\u2019t know much about the sport but the moment he stepped into those tracks and took his first ski steps he says he said, \u201cOh, I\u2019m going to like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The longest race he\u2019s done since was a 20k biathlon individual race. \u201cThere\u2019s several cross country skiing races that have been tougher but any race that lasts more than two hours I love. You have to find it within yourself and be reminded of who you are and what drives you in order to finish this type of race,\u201d says Bermejo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=22291291' width='640' height='360' style='border:none;'><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/us?cid=11_extvid1\">See more US News from ABC<\/a>|<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/international?cid=11_extvid2\">ABC World News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News sends us a link to their continuing series of stories about veterans &#8220;Standing Up &hellip; <a title=\"Omar Bermejo; Marine vet goes to Sochi\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39568\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Omar Bermejo; Marine vet goes to Sochi<\/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-39568","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\/39568","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=39568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}