{"id":18552,"date":"2013-04-27T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T10:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18552"},"modified":"2013-04-27T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T10:53:10","slug":"a-different-side-of-heroism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18552","title":{"rendered":"A Different Side Of Heroism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what the official definition of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Hero\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hero\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">heroism<\/a> is, but most of us equate it with bravery in battle or overcoming odds. Sometimes heroism takes a different path. On Tuesday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2313319\/Cameron-Lyle-Heroic-college-athlete-21-gives-shot-career-donate-bone-marrow-leukemia-sufferer.html\">U.K. Daily Mail<\/a> posted a story about <span>Cameron Lyle<\/span><span>, 21, of Plaistow,<\/span> New Hampshire, a student at the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=43.13556,-70.93333&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=43.13556,-70.93333 (University%20of%20New%20Hampshire)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">University of New Hampshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron is a star athlete who competes in the <span>discus, hammer and shot put<\/span>. He has made the decision to give up the last two track meets of the season, one of which is the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"America East Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americaeast.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">America East<\/a> Championship. This is Cameron&#8217;s final athletic season. Cameron is doing this in order to donate <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bone marrow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bone_marrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">bone marrow<\/a> to a <span>28-year-old<\/span> cancer victim who has six months to live.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=e1814d42-20f6-4581-bb5e-0979cc3d01df\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what the official definition of heroism is, but most of us equate it with bravery in battle or overcoming odds. Sometimes heroism takes a different path. On Tuesday, the U.K. Daily Mail posted a story about Cameron &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=18552\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5452,5453,5450,321,5454,5451,5455,4150],"class_list":["post-18552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america-east-conference","tag-bone-marrow","tag-hero","tag-new-hampshire","tag-plaistow","tag-plaistow-new-hampshire","tag-tuesday","tag-university-of-new-hampshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18555,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552\/revisions\/18555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}