{"id":8909,"date":"2009-03-18T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8909"},"modified":"2009-03-18T12:46:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T17:46:52","slug":"awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8909","title":{"rendered":"Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this your &#8220;dust in the eye&#8221; warning.   Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/\">Drew M over at the House of Ace <\/a>for catching this one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2013 The flag traveled around the world and through the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq. Sgt. Felix Perez brought it from home as a reminder and an amulet. The flag never left his Army backpack.<\/p>\n<p>It accompanied Perez to Dolphin Stadium on Tuesday night. He needed some luck for his team, the United States, in its must-win World Baseball Classic game against Puerto Rico. Perez wore a Team USA hat and a Team USA hoodie, and his little sister, Jessica, draped his flag across her shoulders. The United States\u2019 6-5 come-from-behind victory in the ninth inning sent them into a frenzy. She danced around. He sat in his motorized wheelchair and roared.<\/p>\n<p>On the way out, the 27-year-old Perez placed the flag in his lap and leaned over to a security guard manning Gate G. He was hoping some players from Team USA might sign it. The security guard led Perez and his sister to the U.S. clubhouse, and the flag went inside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next thing I know,\u201d Perez said, \u201cI\u2019m getting called to come back in there.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/mlb\/news?slug=jp-perezteamusa031809&#038;prov=yhoo&#038;type=lgns\">Go read it.  <\/a>I was happy when they won, because Youkilis and Lil Dusty Pedroia are on the team, now I&#8217;m happy because so was Sgt Perez.  Someone needs to get this kid out to Cali for the rest of the games.  If I knew how to pull that off, you better believe I would.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this your &#8220;dust in the eye&#8221; warning. Thanks to Drew M over at the House &hellip; <a title=\"Awesome\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8909\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Awesome<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}