{"id":33326,"date":"2012-12-21T06:19:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T10:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33326"},"modified":"2012-12-21T06:20:49","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T10:20:49","slug":"33326","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33326","title":{"rendered":"Army&#8217;s newest troop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=33327\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33327\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/khalil9-jpg-300x168.jpg?resize=300%2C168\" alt=\"khalil9-jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/khalil9-jpg.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/khalil9-jpg.jpg?w=538&amp;ssl=1 538w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>10-year-old Khalil Quarles has always loved the Army even before cancer interrupted his young life. So some folks at Fort Meade, MD, worked fairly hard to help him become a soldier, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/news\/maryland\/military\/Boy-with-cancer-s-dream-of-becoming-soldier-comes-true\/-\/15159352\/17843646\/-\/4kjcx5z\/-\/index.html\">WBAL<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Khalil, 10, thought the highlight of his day Wednesday would be chatting on Skype for the first time with a soldier stationed in Kuwait, but it got even better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got my Army guys outside waiting for you,&#8221; the soldier told Khalil over the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil went outside to find a crowd and soldiers waiting to fulfill his dream &#8212; to enlist in the U.S. Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should click over and watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10-year-old Khalil Quarles has always loved the Army even before cancer interrupted his young life. So some folks at Fort Meade, MD, worked fairly hard to help him become a soldier, according to WBAL; Khalil, 10, thought the highlight of his day Wednesday would be chatting on Skype for the first time with a soldier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4ozh1-33326","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}