{"id":53647,"date":"2014-07-10T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=53647"},"modified":"2014-07-10T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:36:41","slug":"illinois-gets-one-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53647","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Gets One Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often give Illinois \u2013 and in particular, Chicago \u2013 grief for being a &#8220;shining example&#8221; of dystopia, foolishness, and corruption. But for once it looks like Illinois did something right.<\/p>\n<p>What, you ask? Well, they named a bridge on the Illinois Tollway.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing really new there, I guess.\u00a0 Except this time they didn&#8217;t name the bridge after some famous athlete, entertainer, or local mayor.\u00a0 Instead, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/jul\/2\/medal-of-honor-recipient-gets-illinois-recognition\/\">named the bridge after someone deserving the honor<\/a>: \u00a0 a Medal of Honor recipient.<\/p>\n<p>The man honored is Allen J. Lynch of Gurnee, IL. He received the MoH for heroism in action near My An, South Vietnam, on 15 December 1967.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allen_James_Lynch\">read his MoH citation here<\/a>.\u00a0 If you do, be prepared to be humbled &#8211; and awed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often give Illinois \u2013 and in particular, Chicago \u2013 grief for being a &#8220;shining example&#8221; &hellip; <a title=\"Illinois Gets One Right\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=53647\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illinois Gets One Right<\/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":[218,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stories","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53647","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=53647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}