{"id":62354,"date":"2015-10-17T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62354"},"modified":"2015-10-16T19:28:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T23:28:03","slug":"matias-ferreira-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62354","title":{"rendered":"Matias Ferreira; saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/latino.foxnews.com\/latino\/news\/2015\/10\/16\/marine-who-lost-legs-in-afghanistan-rescues-baby-from-smoking-car\/?intcmp=hpbt3\">Fox News<\/a> about Matias Ferreira, a Marine who lost his legs in Afghanistan in 2011. On a busy street in Queens, he heard a woman screaming after she hit a median pole. Her car was smoking and she couldn&#8217;t get out of the vehicle;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thinking of his own 11-month-old daughter, the 26-year-old Ferreira jumped out of his pick-up truck and sprinted over \u2013 on two prosthetic legs \u2013 to the car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the Marines, you are taught to be prepared and act,&#8221; Ferreira, who was leaving his wedding rehearsal at St. Mary Gate of Heaven Parish when he heard the screams, told the New York Daily News<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Matias and his future father-in-law were able to free the woman and her child from the car. It&#8217;s comforting know Matias is out there watching out for the rest of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AW1Ed sends us a link from Fox News about Matias Ferreira, a Marine who lost his &hellip; <a title=\"Matias Ferreira; saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62354\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matias Ferreira; saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62354","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\/62354","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=62354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}