{"id":71105,"date":"2017-03-26T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T11:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71105"},"modified":"2017-03-26T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T14:04:48","slug":"a-different-kind-of-feel-good-story-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71105","title":{"rendered":"A Different Kind of &#8220;Feel Good Story&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former* US Marine has been appointed as a <del>NYC<\/del> New York policeman.<\/p>\n<p>No big deal, you say?\u00a0 Well, maybe.\u00a0\u00a0 But the case of\u00a0 Matias Ferreira is somewhat unusual.<\/p>\n<p>Ferreira lost both legs below the knee due to injuries received from an IED in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Ferreira&#8217;s not being hired for a &#8220;desk only&#8221; job, either.\u00a0 He completed the Suffolk County Police Academy and was hired as a full-duty cop.\u00a0 His first assignment is as a precinct patrol officer.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2017\/03\/25\/marine-veteran-who-lost-both-legs-in-afghanistan-sworn-in-as-ny-police-officer.html\"><em>has more on this story<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Their article is worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, Marine.\u00a0 Damn well done.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">*Author&#8217;s Note<\/span>:\u00a0 yes, I know &#8211; Marines feel someone is never &#8220;former Marine&#8221; unless they&#8217;ve dishonored their USMC service in some way.\u00a0 Sorry, but I refuse to write &#8220;a Marine no longer serving on active duty&#8221; (or some similar clunky and awkward phrase) to describe someone who&#8217;s separated or retired from the USMC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former* US Marine has been appointed as a NYC New York policeman. No big deal, &hellip; <a title=\"A Different Kind of &#8220;Feel Good Story&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71105\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Different Kind of &#8220;Feel Good Story&#8221;<\/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":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71105","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=71105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}