{"id":539,"date":"2008-04-08T17:24:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=539"},"modified":"2008-04-08T17:26:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T22:26:45","slug":"navy-seal-mike-monsoor-awarded-moh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Navy SEAL, Mike Monsoor, Awarded MOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p> WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; When a grenade bounced off his chest and fell to the floor near his fellow troops, Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor acted out of instinct. His actions didn&#8217;t stem from a lack of training. His instant reaction was to protect his comrades. The Navy says he committed a selfless act: jumping on the grenade and taking the full force of the blast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush presented Monsoor&#8217;s parents with a posthumous Medal of Honor for their son at an emotional White House ceremony. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/04\/08\/seal.medal\/index.html?iref=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i.l.cnn.net\/cnn\/2008\/US\/04\/08\/seal.medal\/art.monsoor.usnavy.jpg\" height=\"219\" hspace=\"75\" width=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; When a grenade bounced off his chest and fell to the floor near his fellow troops, Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor acted out of instinct. His actions didn&#8217;t stem from a lack of training. His instant reaction was to protect his comrades. The Navy says he committed a selfless act: jumping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}