{"id":33838,"date":"2012-08-02T15:01:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T15:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_combat_vet_cleared_to_play_football_at_clemson\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T15:01:47","slug":"ap_combat_vet_cleared_to_play_football_at_clemson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33838","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Combat vet cleared to play football at Clemson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Daniel] Rodriguez served in Iraq during the troop surge of 2007. On his second tour, he found himself in Afghanistan and in the line of fire during one of the war&#8217;s bloodiest fights, the battle of Kamdesh in October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez said close to 400 Taliban combatants overwhelmed the U.S. outpost of fewer than 40 soldiers. Eight Americans were killed, including Rodriguez&#8217;s friend, Pfc. Kevin Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days earlier, the two young men shared their dreams of what they&#8217;d do after returning home. Thompson made Rodriguez promise to chase his goal of playing college football.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2012\/08\/ap-combat-vet-rodriguez-to-play-clemson-football-080112\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Daniel] Rodriguez served in Iraq during the troop surge of 2007. On his second tour, he found himself in Afghanistan and in the line of fire during one of the war&#8217;s bloodiest fights, the battle of Kamdesh in October 2009.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33838\">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":[39,40,54,143,111,128,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-defense-national-security-military","category-education","category-sports","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33838","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=33838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}