{"id":65999,"date":"2016-05-28T08:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65999"},"modified":"2016-05-27T19:21:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T23:21:51","slug":"well-done-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65999","title":{"rendered":"Well Done, Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two US combat veterans have scaled Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s the big deal, you ask?\u00a0 Hasn\u2019t that happened before?<\/p>\n<p>Well, yes.\u00a0 And no.<\/p>\n<p>You see, these two each <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">were amputees<\/span>.\u00a0 Each had lost part of a leg due to injuries sustained in combat.\u00a0 They are believed to be the first combat amputees to scale Everest.<\/p>\n<p>The first was Thomas Charles &#8220;Charlie&#8221; Linville, age 30, a Marine veteran.\u00a0 He reached Everest\u2019s summit last week.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the feat was repeated by Army veteran Chad Jukes, age 32.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2016\/05\/25\/wind-snow-hamper-searching-retrieval-bodies-on-everest.html\">has a story about the two<\/a><\/em> giving more details.\u00a0 It\u2019s IMO worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, men.\u00a0 Damn well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US combat veterans have scaled Mount Everest. What\u2019s the big deal, you ask?\u00a0 Hasn\u2019t that happened before? Well, yes.\u00a0 And no. You see, these two each were amputees.\u00a0 Each had lost part of a leg due to injuries sustained in combat.\u00a0 They are believed to be the first combat amputees to scale Everest. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stories","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-hav","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65999","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}