{"id":411,"date":"2011-06-07T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=411"},"modified":"2011-06-07T09:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-07T14:46:39","slug":"a-tale-of-two-martyrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"A Tale Of Two Martyrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand you have Mr. Osama bin Laden.\u00a0 You probably know the scoop on him.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever read his fatwa then you really the details on his cause.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t read it before, you probably should (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/terrorism\/international\/fatwa_1996.html\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>).\u00a0 I should read it again now that he is in fact a martyr for so many.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I&#8217;d like for you to consider one Mr. Dave Duerson.\u00a0 Most likely you don&#8217; t know who he was.\u00a0 Duerson was a star player of the Chicago Bears for several years, including their 1985 Super Bowl win.\u00a0 On February 17, 2011 Duerson shot himself to death.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting part is, he did it as a selfless act to try to save lives.<\/p>\n<p>Duerson purposely shot himself in the chest instead of his head because he wanted his brain examined.\u00a0 He firmly believed that his brain had sustained traumatic injury from all the blows he had taken during his football years.\u00a0 It turns out that he was correct in that belief (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/03\/sports\/football\/03duerson.html?_r=2\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>).\u00a0 One can only hope that this man&#8217;s ultimate sacrifice was not in vein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand you have Mr. Osama bin Laden.\u00a0 You probably know the scoop on him.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve ever read his fatwa then you really the details on his cause.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t read it before, you probably should (link).\u00a0 I should read it again now that he is in fact a martyr for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-observations","category-technology-and-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}