{"id":61170,"date":"2015-08-03T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61170"},"modified":"2015-08-03T07:43:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-03T11:43:27","slug":"toran-gaals-ride-across-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61170","title":{"rendered":"Toran Gaal&#8217;s Ride Across America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=61171\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61171\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Toran-Gaal-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Toran Gaal\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-61171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Toran-Gaal-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Toran-Gaal.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/toran.gaal\">Toran Gaal<\/a> was a Marine infantryman who lost both his legs in Afghanistan in 2011. He decided that he wanted to be an example to all disabled service members so he took off on a hand-cycle from California. His journey ended 4,000 miles and two months later at the Marine Corps memorial in Alexandria, Virginia yesterday. He also raised nearly $50,000 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/fundraising.semperfifund.org\/fundraise?fcid=444505\">Semper Fi Fund<\/a> on his ride. <\/p>\n<p>Welcome home, Toran.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WTTG.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=986760;hostDomain=www.myfoxdc.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11731140;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\" title=\"DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG\">DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toran Gaal was a Marine infantryman who lost both his legs in Afghanistan in 2011. He &hellip; <a title=\"Toran Gaal&#8217;s Ride Across America\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61170\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Toran Gaal&#8217;s Ride Across America<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61170","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=61170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}