{"id":80201,"date":"2018-06-26T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80201"},"modified":"2018-06-26T11:55:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T15:55:29","slug":"veteran-protests-treatment-at-the-va-with-self-immolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80201","title":{"rendered":"Veteran protests treatment at the VA with self-immolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claymore sends us <a href=\"https:\/\/www.11alive.com\/article\/news\/man-sets-himself-on-fire-outside-georgia-state-capitol-using-fireworks-and-gasoline\/85-567605860\">a link to the story<\/a> of a veteran who set himself on fire using fireworks and gasoline on the Georgia Capitol grounds;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The incident happened on Washington Street around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have somebody who claims to be a veteran that is disgruntled by treatment by the V.A.,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The man is awake and being treated at the hospital. 11Alive is working to gather more details.<\/p>\n<p>During a news conference on Central Ave. about the new hands free driving law, a group of Georgia State Troopers paused because of activity happening off-camera and then they took off running.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A Georgia state trooper acted quickly to extinguish the burning veteran. <\/p>\n<p>It happened during a news conference;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D6AzqDzKk5E\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Please find another way to protest &#8211; fire is painful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claymore sends us a link to the story of a veteran who set himself on fire &hellip; <a title=\"Veteran protests treatment at the VA with self-immolation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80201\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veteran protests treatment at the VA with self-immolation<\/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":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80201","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=80201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}