{"id":19906,"date":"2012-10-17T02:02:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T05:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=19906"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:02:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T05:02:50","slug":"comfort-amid-cruelty-christian-doc-on-serving-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/comfort-amid-cruelty-christian-doc-on-serving-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Comfort Amid Cruelty: Christian Doc on Serving in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>As a Christian surgeon deployed to Afghanistan, some tragedies will forever be burned into my memory. One such experience happened during a mass casualty situation. A vehicle-borne IED detonated in a public place, killing several Afghanis and injuring eight, including a six-year-old boy&#8230;\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBefore long, the sound of two arriving Black Hawk helicopters thundered throughout the ER. The trauma teams quickly and skillfully began treating the incoming patients\u2014securing airways, placing chest tubes, starting IVs, and taking X-rays while assessing injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the boy was brought in&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocfusa.org\/articles\/comfort-amid-cruelty\/\">Read more<\/a>.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a Christian surgeon deployed to Afghanistan, some tragedies will forever be burned into my memory. One such experience happened during a mass casualty situation. A vehicle-borne IED detonated in a public place, killing several Afghanis and injuring eight, including a six-year-old boy&#8230;\u00a0 \u00a0 Before long, the sound of two arriving Black Hawk helicopters thundered throughout the ER. The trauma [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,96,994,2,10,171,3641],"class_list":["post-19906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-christian","tag-ied","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-surgeon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}