{"id":95160,"date":"2020-02-04T16:13:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=95160"},"modified":"2020-02-04T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T20:15:44","slug":"the-toughest-man-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=95160","title":{"rendered":"The Toughest Man Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goggins.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-95161\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goggins.jpg?resize=239%2C301&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goggins.jpg?w=239&amp;ssl=1 239w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goggins.jpg?resize=238%2C300&amp;ssl=1 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Retired Navy SEAL David Goggins is the only member of the U.S. military to complete SEAL training, Army Ranger School and Air Force Combat Control Training.<\/p>\n<p>He will be the special guest of Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn at tonight&#8217;s State of the Union address delivered by the POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>In an article posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawofficer.com\/toughest-man-alive-to-be-guest-of-tennessee-senator-during-state-of-the-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawofficer.com<\/a>, it states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He decided to be a\u00a0patriot\u00a0because his country had given him the \u201cgreat opportunity to become someone,\u201d after battling low self-esteem and\u00a0demons stemming from his childhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I had to first work on myself and\u2026stop blaming everybody for my issues,\u201d he told Doocy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly,\u00a0Jenny Craig\u00a0wasn\u2019t around for me, so basically I just ate\u00a0very little and worked out like a madman. And, during that process is where I found myself,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our nation, people have the opportunity to dream big dreams and then to find a way to make those dreams come true and that\u2019s exactly what David has done,\u201d said Blackburn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe found the path that worked for him and that\u2019s what the American dream is all about,\u201d she concluded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired Navy SEAL David Goggins is the only member of the U.S. military to complete SEAL training, Army Ranger School and Air Force Combat Control Training. He will be the special guest of Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn at tonight&#8217;s State of the Union address delivered by the POTUS. In an article posted by lawofficer.com, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":95161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,457],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories","category-ranger"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/goggins.jpg?fit=239%2C301&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-oKQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95160","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\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/95161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}