{"id":67592,"date":"2016-08-22T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67592"},"modified":"2016-08-22T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T19:10:57","slug":"sam-kendricks-and-the-most-patriotic-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67592","title":{"rendered":"Sam Kendricks and &#8220;the most patriotic moment&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=67593\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67593\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sam-Kendricks-225x333.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Kendricks\" width=\"225\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sam-Kendricks-225x333.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sam-Kendricks-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Sam-Kendricks.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Some folks are calling Army reservist 2LT Sam Kendricks&#8217; abrupt stop during his pole vault attempt at the Olympics the most patriotic moment they&#8217;ve witnessed. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/olympics\/us-pole-vaulter-stops-mid-stride-to-stand-at-attention-for-national-anthem\/ar-BBvUksi?li=BBnb7Kz\">MSN News<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When &#8216;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8217; started playing during his competition in Rio, U.S. pole vaulter Sam Kendricks literally dropped what he was doing to pay respect to the national anthem.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the moment;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iU7yg35vpnw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, here&#8217;s the vault that earned him a Bronze Medal;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ej9W1kw5hCI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Mississippi native became the first American to take home a medal in that event since Timothy Mack won gold in Athens in 2004. A two-time NCAA champion, he also is the first athlete from the University of Mississippi to win an Olympic medal.<\/p>\n<p>Kendricks comes from a military family, as his father, Scott, served 10 years in the U.S. marines and is now his son&#8217;s coach in the pole vault.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to the folks who sent us the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some folks are calling Army reservist 2LT Sam Kendricks&#8217; abrupt stop during his pole vault attempt &hellip; <a title=\"Sam Kendricks and &#8220;the most patriotic moment&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67592\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sam Kendricks and &#8220;the most patriotic moment&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67592","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=67592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}