{"id":44217,"date":"2014-05-22T21:02:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_retired_marine_from_south_carolina_receiving_medal_of_honor_nex\/"},"modified":"2014-05-22T21:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T21:02:57","slug":"local_paper_retired_marine_from_south_carolina_receiving_medal_of_honor_nex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44217","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) Retired Marine from South Carolina receiving Medal of Honor next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A severely injured Marine now enrolled at the University of South Carolina will receive the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama next month, the White House announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cpl. William &#8220;Kyle&#8221; Carpenter, a retired U.S. Marine, will receive the Medal of Honor on June 19 in a ceremony at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Carpenter is the eighth living recipient to be awarded the medal for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan. He is being recognized after he threw himself onto a grenade to save the life of a friend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over there, each other is all we have,&#8221; Carpenter told Katie Couric on Jan. 27 during a television interview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20140519\/PC1610\/140519218\/1009\/retired-marine-from-south-carolina-receiving-medal-of-honor-next-month\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A severely injured Marine now enrolled at the University of South Carolina will receive the Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama next month, the White House announced Monday. Cpl. William &#8220;Kyle&#8221; Carpenter, a retired U.S. Marine, will receive the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44217\">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":[39,40,54,143,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-defense-national-security-military","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217","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=44217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}