{"id":77646,"date":"2018-02-11T15:27:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77646"},"modified":"2018-02-11T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:23:32","slug":"cayleigh-and-the-first-sergeant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77646","title":{"rendered":"Cayleigh and the First Sergeant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77647\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77647\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Cayleigh-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Cayleigh-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Cayleigh.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Mick sends a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2018\/02\/08\/national-guardsman-takes-illinois-girl-whose-dad-was-killed-to-father-daughter-dance.html\">Fox News<\/a> which tells the story of 5-year-old Cayleigh Hinton, whose father, Sergeant Terrence Hinton, was killed in a training accident last year in Hawaii. Her mother asked the local Illinois National Guard if they could send someone who could take the girl to a Father-daughter dance.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t even really a choice for me. I view it as an honor to be able to do this for her,&#8221; [First Sergeant Joseph] Bierbrodt told WLS.<\/p>\n<p>Bierbrodt said he never met the 5-year-old or her father who died, but he felt that taking the girl to the dance \u201chad to be done.\u201d He added that if he was gone, he would want a soldier to step in for one of his four children in the same situation.<\/p>\n<p>Bierbrodt and Cayleigh arrived at the school in a limousine and they were escorted by police, firefighters and the Patriot Guard. The duo danced throughout the night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick sends a link to Fox News which tells the story of 5-year-old Cayleigh Hinton, whose &hellip; <a title=\"Cayleigh and the First Sergeant\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77646\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cayleigh and the First Sergeant<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-we-remember"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77646","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=77646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}