{"id":71569,"date":"2017-04-19T07:35:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T11:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71569"},"modified":"2017-04-19T07:35:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T11:35:38","slug":"weaponsman-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71569","title":{"rendered":"Weaponsman passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stacy0311sends us the sad news that Kevin O\u2019Brien, the founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/weaponsman.com\/?p=40501\">WeaponsMan <\/a>blog has passed. According to his brother;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kevin graduated from high school in 1975 and joined the Army in (I believe) 1979.  He learned Czech at DLI and became a Ranger and a member of Special Forces.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin\u2019s happiest times were in the Army.  He loved the service and was deeply committed to it.  We were so proud when he earned the Green Beret.  He was active duty for eight years and then stayed in the Reserves and National Guard for many years, including a deployment to Afghanistan in 2003.  He told me after that that Afghan tour was when he felt he had made his strongest contribution to the world.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There were times that Kevin was my only friend on the internet, and I&#8217;m going to miss that. Take a knee, Kevin, your job on this earth is done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacy0311sends us the sad news that Kevin O\u2019Brien, the founder of the WeaponsMan blog has passed. &hellip; <a title=\"Weaponsman passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71569\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weaponsman passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71569","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=71569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}