{"id":54001,"date":"2016-04-07T14:40:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/us_marine_corps_dog_named_lucca_who_saved_lives_wins_prize\/"},"modified":"2016-04-07T14:40:25","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:40:25","slug":"us_marine_corps_dog_named_lucca_who_saved_lives_wins_prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54001","title":{"rendered":"US Marine Corps dog named Lucca who saved lives wins prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Marine Corps dog that sniffed out explosives and protected thousands of troops has been honored with a prize for animals serving bravely in military conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Lucca, a 12-year-old German Shepherd, won the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, a decoration for bravery. She is the first U.S. Marine Corps dog to receive the honor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/europe\/us-marine-corps-dog-named-lucca-who-saved-lives-wins-prize-1.402904\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Marine Corps dog that sniffed out explosives and protected thousands of troops has been honored with a prize for animals serving bravely in military conflict. Lucca, a 12-year-old German Shepherd, won the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54001\">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":[39,49,189,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-general-interest","category-animals","category-military-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54001","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=54001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}