{"id":49265,"date":"2014-05-30T13:53:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=49265"},"modified":"2014-05-30T13:53:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:53:44","slug":"police-officers-push-vietnam-vet-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49265","title":{"rendered":"Police officers push Vietnam vet home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ChipNASA sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wistv.com\/story\/25640731\/officers-push-vietnam-vet-on-broken-scooter-2-miles-home#.U4i3zMwvmT0.facebook\">a link to a story<\/a> where two San Diego cops encountered Vietnam veteran Gil Larocque broke down with his power scooter at a busy intersection. The officers did the only thing they could;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You wouldn&#8217;t expect them to do something like that, push you all the way home,&#8221; Larocque said.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s exactly what San Diego police officers Milo Shields, a veteran, and Eric Cooper, the son of a veteran did, when they saw Larocque struggling, trying to flag down traffic in the hot sun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I appreciate what they did, they went out of their way. How many people would stop?&#8221; Larocque asked.<\/p>\n<p>It was a lot easier said than done, as there were some hiccups along the nearly two-mile route, pushing Larocque and a dead scooter that weighed more than 300 pounds.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WISTV.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=525291;hostDomain=www.wistv.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=10212769;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=Station%252050;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wistv.com\" title=\"wistv.com - Columbia, South Carolina |\">wistv.com &#8211; Columbia, South Carolina |<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ChipNASA sends us a link to a story where two San Diego cops encountered Vietnam veteran &hellip; <a title=\"Police officers push Vietnam vet home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=49265\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police officers push Vietnam vet home<\/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":[227],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49265","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=49265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}