{"id":59044,"date":"2015-04-02T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59044"},"modified":"2015-04-01T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:43:03","slug":"joshua-anderson-just-another-veteran-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59044","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Anderson; just another veteran saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/crime-courts\/disabled-veteran-joshua-anderson-shoots-2-men-save-pregnant-woman-n326561\">a link <\/a>about Joshua Anderson, a disabled veteran who witnessed an altercation and decided to intervene when he saw a woman attacked;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the altercation, one of the men, later identified as Brett Jowers, allegedly pushed the pregnant girlfriend of the second man, Zachery Sly, to the ground, NBC affiliate WPTV reported.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson, 29, &#8220;saw a woman being attacked at night, and he went to her aid,&#8221; Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said at a news conference. &#8220;In my opinion, I think he did the right thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anderson warned the men to back off, but when they threatened to jump on him, he shot each of them in the torso, Snyder added. &#8220;You don&#8217;t have an obligation to allow yourself to be attacked,&#8221; the sheriff said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anderson explained to the journalists that he was unable to fend off the men due to his disability. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/2E2eJC\/nbcNewsOffsite?guid=nc_disabledve_150319\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link about Joshua Anderson, a disabled veteran who witnessed an altercation and &hellip; <a title=\"Joshua Anderson; just another veteran saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59044\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joshua Anderson; just another veteran saving the world<\/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":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59044","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=59044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}