{"id":1568,"date":"2011-10-14T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2011-10-14T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T13:43:01","slug":"committed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/committed\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You THIS Committed To Your Calling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this photo this summer and it just about knocked me out of my chair.  Take a good look.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marine_sniper_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Marine Sniper Instructor Amputee prosthetic leg\" title=\"Marine_sniper_sm\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1570\" srcset=\"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marine_sniper_sm.jpg 590w, http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marine_sniper_sm-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Marine_sniper_sm-97x65.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><small>Photo Credit: USMC, Lance Cpl. Timothy Lenzo<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Jason Pacheco, 23, suffered a severed leg after an improvised explosive device detonated beneath him during a patrol in Afghanistan August 2010, which then had to be amputated below the knee.  He has been a scout sniper instructor at Camp Pendelton since March and recently completed a physical fitness test with his prosthetic leg. He has re-enlisted and said he hopes to continue training in preparation to return to full duty. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is someone who is so committed to his calling that not even losing a leg could stop him.  He has already given more to his country and fellow citizens than 99.9% of us ever will.  Yet he still gives, he still serves.<\/p>\n<p>Are you this committed to your calling?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this photo this summer and it just about knocked me out of my chair. Take a good look. Photo Credit: USMC, Lance Cpl. Timothy Lenzo Sgt. Jason Pacheco, 23, suffered a severed leg after an improvised explosive device detonated beneath him during a patrol in Afghanistan August 2010, which then had to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[264,266,265],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1574,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/warriorshepherd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}