{"id":39841,"date":"2014-02-16T11:17:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T16:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39841"},"modified":"2014-02-16T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T16:59:51","slug":"oshie-deflects-hero-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39841","title":{"rendered":"Oshie deflects &#8220;hero&#8221; label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic athlete who scored four goals against the evil Russians yesterday during their hockey match, T.J. Oshie was asked how it felt to be <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/t-j--oshie--the-new-american-hero-190037063.html\">heralded as a &#8220;national hero&#8221;<\/a>. His <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/news\/t-j--oshie-should-be-saluted-for-pointing-out-true-meaning-of--hero-104627589.html\">response <\/a>should be etched in every locker room; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The American heroes are wearing camo,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;That&#8217;s not me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, to be truthful, even those heroes in camouflage would humbly deflect the label, too. All real heroes do. That&#8217;s why we find so many phonies in the media. Heroes don&#8217;t live for the glory, they&#8217;re the ones who&#8217;ll be the first to tell you that they were only doing their job, that they did it to bring their friends home. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.historynet.com\/william-bull-halsey-legendary-world-war-ii-admiral.htm\">Bull Halsey<\/a> once summed up where heroes come from; \u201cThere are no extraordinary men&#8230;just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> Speaking of patriotic hockey players, you should check out goalie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewire.com\/entertainment\/2014\/02\/best-olympic-goalie-mask-art\/358072\/\">Jonathon Quick&#8217;s mask<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic athlete who scored four goals against the evil Russians yesterday during their hockey match, &hellip; <a title=\"Oshie deflects &#8220;hero&#8221; label\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39841\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oshie deflects &#8220;hero&#8221; label<\/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":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39841","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=39841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}