{"id":58717,"date":"2015-03-13T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58717"},"modified":"2015-03-12T16:36:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:36:32","slug":"bill-badger-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58717","title":{"rendered":"Colonel Bill Badger passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58718\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58718\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Bill-Badger.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Badger\" width=\"161\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58718\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Retired colonel Bill Badger, the fellow who tackled and the wrestled the gun out of Jared Loughner&#8217;s hand after he shot several people, including Congresswoman Gabriel Giffords in Tucson Arizona four years ago, has passed according to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/man-subdued-gunman-2011-arizona-shooting-rampage-dies-192131993.html\">Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Bill Badger, a retired Army colonel who was wounded in the shooting spree in the supermarket parking lot on Jan. 8, 2011, died on Wednesday at age 78 in Tucson, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Badger succumbed to pneumonia at the Tucson Medical Center after being in failing health for several weeks, his wife, Sallie Badger, told the Arizona Daily Star. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Colonel Badger was also wounded during Loughner&#8217;s rampage that January day, but he had the presence of mind to spring to his feet and disarm the nut while Loughner attempted to reload. Of course, in the opening hours of the incident, the media was quick to report that Loughner was a veteran (he wasn&#8217;t) but little was said about the veteran who stopped him, or of the doctor who was also a veteran who saved Giffords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired colonel Bill Badger, the fellow who tackled and the wrestled the gun out of Jared &hellip; <a title=\"Colonel Bill Badger passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58717\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Colonel Bill Badger passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58717","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=58717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}