{"id":55643,"date":"2014-10-06T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55643"},"modified":"2014-10-06T08:56:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T12:56:01","slug":"sfc-brian-keatons-first-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55643","title":{"rendered":"SFC Brian Keaton&#8217;s first pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55644\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55644\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/SFC-Brian-Keaton.jpg\" alt=\"SFC Brian Keaton\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55644\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s wounded veteran, Sergeant First Class Brian Keaton in the picture above tossing out the first pitch at Game 2 of the National League&#8217;s Division Series the other day. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/2014\/10\/04\/army-vet-throws-1st-pitch-like-grenade-before-nationals-game\/?intcmp=latestnews\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Retired vet Brian Keaton walked onto the grass before getting on his stomach and crawling several feet at Nationals Park on Saturday. He threw the ball with his left hand from behind the mound and the toss bounced home.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd cheered loudly before San Francisco played Washington.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Nationals, Keaton was wounded in a bomb explosion. The team said he spent 3 1-2 years at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center recovering from a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video;<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=3823017528001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s wounded veteran, Sergeant First Class Brian Keaton in the picture above tossing out the first &hellip; <a title=\"SFC Brian Keaton&#8217;s first pitch\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55643\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SFC Brian Keaton&#8217;s first pitch<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55643","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=55643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}