{"id":714377,"date":"2010-04-12T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-7454803446804935529"},"modified":"2010-04-12T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:45:00","slug":"monday-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/714377","title":{"rendered":"Monday Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S8KGm6VLwbI\/AAAAAAAAFWM\/FVOd_d3iAkk\/s1600\/matthewbradford.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S8KGm6VLwbI\/AAAAAAAAFWM\/FVOd_d3iAkk\/s320\/matthewbradford.jpg?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459073701377720754\" \/><\/a>Just another one of those stories that forces us to take a few steps back to look at our &#8220;problems&#8221; and how we deal with them&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">He has no legs and no eyesight, but Marine Cpl. Matthew Bradford has four more years of military service ahead of him after becoming the first blind double-amputee to re-enlist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Bradford, 23, has learned to walk with prosthetic limbs and navigate without his vision, and he only regrets that he can\u2019t return to combat duty in Iraq, the paper reported.<\/p>\n<p>Instead the Kentucky native will head to Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he will work with other wounded Marines in hopes of helping them cope with anger, depression and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m paving the road for the rest of them who want to stay in but think they can&#8217;t,&#8221; he told the Express-News. &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to get back to work.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/04\/09\/marine-blind-double-amputee-enlist\/\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Very humbling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-7454803446804935529?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just another one of those stories that forces us to take a few steps back to look at our &#8220;problems&#8221; and how we deal with them&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;He has no legs and no eyesight, but Marine Cpl. Matthew Bradford has four more years of military service ahead of him after becoming the first blind double-amputee to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZQd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}