{"id":66264,"date":"2016-06-10T10:53:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T14:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66264"},"modified":"2016-06-10T11:00:40","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T15:00:40","slug":"retired-marine-rodney-buentello-saving-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66264","title":{"rendered":"Retired Marine Rodney Buentello saving the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66265\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rodney-Buentello-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rodney Buentello\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66265\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Richard sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/2016\/06\/09\/retired-marine-master-sergeant-dies-while-saving-drowning-teens\/85659170\/\">Marine Corps Times<\/a> about Retired Marine Master Sergeant Rodney Buentello who was enjoying the day at a picnic with his family near San ANtonio, Texas when a teen was illegally walking on a dam. She lost her footing and fell into the water. Another teen jumped in to save her. The rushing water swept both of them away, until Master Sergeant Buentello involved himself and he dived in to rescue them both. Unfortunately, Buentello was swept up in the current and it cost him his life. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pascual Gonzales with the San Antonio-area school district said Buentello was hired as an instructional assistant at John Jay High School in San Antonio in 2013. He resigned from the school on good terms last month.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales said Buentello was also a former student at John Jay.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Beyond being a decorated Marine and educator, Buentello was described as a family man.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No greater love&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66267\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66267\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rodney-Buentello-and-family-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"Rodney Buentello and family\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-66267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rodney-Buentello-and-family-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rodney-Buentello-and-family-479x333.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rodney-Buentello-and-family.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/thescoopblog.dallasnews.com\/2016\/06\/former-marine-drowns-after-saving-two-teens-caught-in-strong-current-at-central-texas-park.html\/\">Dallas Morning News<\/a> says that he had multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and two Purple Hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard sends us a link to the Marine Corps Times about Retired Marine Master Sergeant Rodney &hellip; <a title=\"Retired Marine Rodney Buentello saving the world\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66264\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Retired Marine Rodney Buentello saving the world<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66264","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=66264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}