{"id":1777,"date":"2010-04-11T19:05:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T19:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1777"},"modified":"2010-04-11T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T19:05:32","slug":"a_beautiful_soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1777","title":{"rendered":"A Beautiful Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysanantonio.com\/military\/Marine_is_first_blind_double_amputee_to_re-enlist.html?c=y&amp;page=1#storytop\">San Antonio Newspaper<\/a>&nbsp;posted a story about the reenlistment of Marine Cpl. Matthew Bradford into the Marines.&nbsp; It wasn&#8217;t your everyday reenlistment.&nbsp; Cpl. Bradford is&nbsp;the first blind double amputee to re-enlist.&nbsp; He was injured in Iraq while on patrol in Al Anbar province a few months into his first tour of duty there.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article states:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Bradford said he wants to focus his energy on others, now that he&#8217;s come so far in his own recovery.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;He said he hopes to help wounded Marines cope with anger, depression and other demons that can fester if there&#8217;s not someone around to provide strong peer mentoring.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;&#8221;I&#8217;m paving the road for the rest of them who want to stay in but think they can&#8217;t,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to get back to work.&#8221;&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What an amazing man.&nbsp; Please follow the link and read the entire article.&nbsp; The story of his accomplishments since his injuries is inspiring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, a San Antonio Newspaper&nbsp;posted a story about the reenlistment of Marine Cpl. Matthew Bradford into the Marines.&nbsp; It wasn&#8217;t your everyday reenlistment.&nbsp; Cpl. Bradford is&nbsp;the first blind double amputee to re-enlist.&nbsp; He was injured in Iraq while on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}