{"id":269,"date":"2004-05-25T07:55:34","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T07:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=269"},"modified":"2004-05-25T07:55:34","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T07:55:34","slug":"marine_cpl_dove_on_a_grenade_to_save_his_marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"Marine Cpl dove on a grenade to save his Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recruits at the Corps&#8217; two recruit training depots will know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpp.usmc.mil\/scout\/Articles\/destiny.htm\">Cpl. Jason L. Dunham<\/a>. They will know that the 22-year-old Marine lived up to the Corps&#8217; largest legends and laid down his own life ? diving on a grenade, no less ? to save his Marines.<br \/>\nOne Marine dubbed it a &#8220;selfless&#8221; act of valor. Another said it&#8217;s destined to make him &#8220;everybody&#8217;s hero.&#8221; A third said it defined him as &#8220;something special&#8221; ? so special that Sgt. Maj. Wayne R. Bell, the 1st Marine Division sergeant major, believes Dunham may wind up with an honor not conferred upon a Marine since the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recruits at the Corps&#8217; two recruit training depots will know Cpl. Jason L. Dunham. They will know that the 22-year-old Marine lived up to the Corps&#8217; largest legends and laid down his own life ? diving on a grenade, no less ? to save his Marines. One Marine dubbed it a &#8220;selfless&#8221; act of valor. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}