{"id":72291,"date":"2017-05-25T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72291"},"modified":"2017-05-25T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T13:11:04","slug":"gregory-ward-bass-jr-fighting-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72291","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Ward Bass, Jr.; fighting Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=72292\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-72292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gregory-Ward-Bass-Jr.-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-72292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gregory-Ward-Bass-Jr.-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gregory-Ward-Bass-Jr.-266x333.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Gregory-Ward-Bass-Jr..jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This delightful looking fellow is Gregory Ward Bass, Jr.. He was tossed from a shelter and while an ambulance was transporting him to a hospital, he assaulted the EMT and police officer riding with him. The officer was able to taser and subdue his ass. His explanation in an interview with police is unique. From Portland, Oregon&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/court-docs-portland-accused-of-attacking-emts-says-he-thought-they-were-russians\">KATU<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an interview, Bass claims the attack was spurred by symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder he suffers due to &#8220;fighting he did in Uzbekistan against the Russians,&#8221; according to the probable cause statement. This claim was not corroborated by any evidence in the initial court filings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>KATU explains the tattoo;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The apparent tattoo on Bass&#8217; forehead is a traditional symbol for Orthodox Christians in parts of eastern Europe and the surrounding area. The symbol shows the Greek letters alpha and omega (of their own religious significance) bookending a larger &#8220;christogram&#8221; in the center. This particular &#8220;christogram&#8221; is a centuries-old abbreviation for Jesus Christ formed by the Greek letters chi and rho, used in many contexts throughout history including on tombs, banners, jewelry, stained glass and military equipment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Everyone has PTSD from something these days, even from imaginary wars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This delightful looking fellow is Gregory Ward Bass, Jr.. He was tossed from a shelter and &hellip; <a title=\"Gregory Ward Bass, Jr.; fighting Russians\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72291\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gregory Ward Bass, Jr.; fighting Russians<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72291","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=72291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}