{"id":49223,"date":"2014-05-30T10:53:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49223"},"modified":"2014-05-30T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T14:53:15","slug":"sfc-john-taffe-graduates-from-bct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49223","title":{"rendered":"SFC John Taffe graduates from BCT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=49225\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49225\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/John-Taffe-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"John Taffe\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/John-Taffe-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/John-Taffe-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/John-Taffe.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>ChipNASA sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2014\/05\/30\/55-year-old-dad-graduates-combat-basic-training\/?intcmp=latestnews\">Fox News<\/a> which reports that Sergeant First Class John Taffe, a 55-year-old from Alameda, CA graduated from Basic Combat Training at Fort Leonard Wood, MO yesterday;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I left for Missouri, my 15-year-old son said, &#8216;Dad, I hope the Army knocks you off your high horse.&#8217; Now I can tell him, &#8216;Nope. It just made me stronger,'&#8221; he told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Taffe said he hopes the additional money he makes working in the reserve will help pay for his kids\u2019 college. He had worked in the Navy for 14 years and working six years in the Reserve will increase his benefits. He also said the Sept. 11 attacks inspired him to join the reserves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChipNASA sends us a link to Fox News which reports that Sergeant First Class John Taffe, &hellip; <a title=\"SFC John Taffe graduates from BCT\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49223\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SFC John Taffe graduates from BCT<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49223","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=49223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}