{"id":50847,"date":"2014-06-13T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50847"},"modified":"2014-06-13T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T13:57:22","slug":"news-about-a-former-cinc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50847","title":{"rendered":"News About a Former CINC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President George H. W. Bush, to be precise.<\/p>\n<p>The man had a birthday yesterday &#8211; his 90th. He celebrated it in a rather novel way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140612\/NEWS\/306120053\/90-year-old-former-president-makes-parachute-jump\">With a parachute jump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this one a bit unique is that the former POTUS <em>no longer has the use of his legs<\/em>. He was assisted in the jump by SFC (Ret) Mike Elliotta. Elliotta is a retired member of the US Army&#8217;s Parachute team, the Golden Knights. He guided the pair, jumping together, to a soft landing.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that for a minute. The man is<em> 90 years old. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">He can no longer use his legs<\/span><\/em>. And he celebrated his 90th birthday by making a <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">freaking parachute jump<\/span><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we need to check his &#8220;man card&#8221; any time soon.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n<p>The former POTUS was uninjured. He departed the DZ without speaking to the press.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, sir.\u00a0 Keep on jumping as long as you can.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and all of you who voted for Perot:\u00a0 freaking thanks heaps.\u00a0 Hope you enjoyed Slick Willie&#8217;s Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President George H. W. Bush, to be precise. The man had a birthday yesterday &#8211; &hellip; <a title=\"News About a Former CINC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50847\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">News About a Former CINC<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,217,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-we-remember","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50847","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}