{"id":30738,"date":"2011-10-27T03:51:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T03:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-eighteen-year-old-soldier-was-a-high-school\/"},"modified":"2011-10-27T03:51:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T03:51:57","slug":"the-eighteen-year-old-soldier-was-a-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-eighteen-year-old-soldier-was-a-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The eighteen-year-old soldier was a high school dropout who failed to qualify for the original position in the armed forces he\u2019d applied for. It was suggested he try his hand at drone piloting, and according to Singer, \u201cbecause of playing on video games, he was already good at it.\u201d So good, in fact, that he was brought back from Iraq to become an instructor at a training academy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2009\/02\/07\/soldier-became-ace-drone-pilot-by-training-on-video-games\/\">Soldier became ace drone pilot by training on video games | Joystiq<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/new-aesthetic.tumblr.com\/\">new-aesthetic<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eighteen-year-old soldier was a high school dropout who failed to qualify for the original position in the armed forces he\u2019d applied for. It was suggested he try his hand at drone piloting, and according to Singer, \u201cbecause of playing on video games, he was already good at it.\u201d So good, in fact, that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7ZM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}