{"id":65999,"date":"2016-05-28T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65999"},"modified":"2016-05-27T19:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T23:21:51","slug":"well-done-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65999","title":{"rendered":"Well Done, Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two US combat veterans have scaled Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the big deal, you ask?\u00a0 Hasn\u2019t that happened before?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes.\u00a0 And no.<\/p>\n<p>You see, these two each <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">were amputees<\/span>.\u00a0 Each had lost part of a leg due to injuries sustained in combat.\u00a0 They are believed to be the first combat amputees to scale Everest.<\/p>\n<p>The first was Thomas Charles &#8220;Charlie&#8221; Linville, age 30, a Marine veteran.\u00a0 He reached Everest\u2019s summit last week.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the feat was repeated by Army veteran Chad Jukes, age 32.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/05\/25\/wind-snow-hamper-searching-retrieval-bodies-on-everest.html\">has a story about the two<\/a><\/em> giving more details.\u00a0 It\u2019s IMO worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, men.\u00a0 Damn well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US combat veterans have scaled Mount Everest. What\u2019s the big deal, you ask?\u00a0 Hasn\u2019t that &hellip; <a title=\"Well Done, Men\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65999\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Well Done, Men<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stories","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65999","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}