{"id":122665,"date":"2023-09-02T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122665"},"modified":"2023-09-02T15:26:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:26:55","slug":"vietnam-vet-helping-injured-service-members-one-quarter-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122665","title":{"rendered":"Heroes like Rick Ryan, out there unknown to almost all of us, helping hold the country together&#8211;Vietnam vet helping injured service members one quarter at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2h2ymHebfCs?si=8pzOA9cGkyTdGdg1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Herewith the NBC blurb&#8211;&#8216;Walking has helped Vietnam veteran Ric Ryan and he\u2019s known around his California town for waving to everyone he passes by. Ric decided to donate a quarter for everyone who waves back to him on his walks to Operation Mend, which helps post-9\/11 veterans injured in service. NBC News\u2019 Harry Smith spoke with Ric about going the extra mile.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Watch it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herewith the NBC blurb&#8211;&#8216;Walking has helped Vietnam veteran Ric Ryan and he\u2019s known around his California town for waving to everyone he passes by. Ric decided to donate a quarter for everyone who waves back to him on his walks<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122665\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,104,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-health-medicine","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122668,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122665\/revisions\/122668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}