{"id":7180,"date":"2022-03-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2022-02-25T19:44:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T00:44:33","slug":"an-american-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/an-american-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"AN AMERICAN HERO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>High on any list of American heroes is \u201cChesty\u201d Puller.&nbsp; In World War II and Korea, he established himself as a model combat leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He didn\u2019t hesitate to get his hands dirty \u2013 or bloody \u2013 himself.&nbsp; Sometimes the blood was his own, and some was that of enemy combatants he killed up close and personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhandgunner.com\/our-experts\/ayoob-files-consummate-marine-chesty-puller-45-in-hand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an article I wrote<\/a> about Puller in the most recent issue of <em>American Handgunner <\/em>magazine. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed researching and writing it. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High on any list of American heroes is \u201cChesty\u201d Puller.&nbsp; In World War II and Korea, he established himself as a model combat leader. He didn\u2019t hesitate to get his hands dirty \u2013 or bloody \u2013 himself.&nbsp; Sometimes the blood was his own, and some was that of enemy combatants he killed up close and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7182,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions\/7182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}