{"id":72396,"date":"2017-05-29T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72396"},"modified":"2017-05-29T13:08:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T17:08:59","slug":"leap-frog-parachutist-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72396","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Leap Frog&#8221; parachutist dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devtun sends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/navy-seal-killed-when-parachute-doesnt-open-in-fleet-week-demo_us_59288dace4b0df57cbfbc129\">a link to the story <\/a>of an as-yet-unnamed Navy parachutist on their &#8220;Leap Frog&#8221; parachute demonstration team who was killed at Fleet Week celebrations yesterday;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The Coast Guard and Jersey City Fire Department Marine Unit retrieved the SEAL, who was taken to Jersey Medical Center and later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The parachutist could be seen peeling away from the team\u2019s formation and fell out of view of spectators, blocked by some buildings, The New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Joe Shine told NJ.com that the parachutist, realizing his predicament, appeared to detach the faulty chute so he would land in the river. The chute fell onto a parking lot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The problem is that everything that the military does can kill you even if there&#8217;s no enemy around. It&#8217;s the nature of the business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devtun sends a link to the story of an as-yet-unnamed Navy parachutist on their &#8220;Leap Frog&#8221; &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;Leap Frog&#8221; parachutist dies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72396\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Leap Frog&#8221; parachutist dies<\/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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72396","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=72396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}