{"id":73731,"date":"2017-08-01T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73731"},"modified":"2017-08-01T08:09:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:09:33","slug":"rodney-buentello-marine-honored-by-coast-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73731","title":{"rendered":"Rodney Buentello; Marine honored by Coast Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=66266\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-66266\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Rodney-Buentello1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"203\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66266\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66264\">Back in June<\/a>, we wrote about Marine Master Sergeant Rodney Buentello who sacrificed his life to rescue two teens from a raging river while he was picnicking with his family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/coast-guard-honors-man-posthumously-for-saving-2-teens-from-drowning\">KSAT<\/a> reports that the Coast Guard awarded the twice-awarded Purple Heart veteran&#8217;s family a posthumous Gold Life Saving Medal;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His wife, Lisa, said her husband&#8217;s sacrifice spoke volumes about the kind of man he was.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone wants to be remembered, but he never did. He did these things because it was in his heart, it was in his mind, and he didn&#8217;t think about that part,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Buentello said she and her family miss Rodney every day, but knowing that he saved lives helps them cope with their grief.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in June, we wrote about Marine Master Sergeant Rodney Buentello who sacrificed his life to &hellip; <a title=\"Rodney Buentello; Marine honored by Coast Guard\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73731\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rodney Buentello; Marine honored by Coast Guard<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73731","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=73731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}