{"id":33754,"date":"2022-06-01T11:32:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T16:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33754"},"modified":"2022-06-02T09:39:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:39:26","slug":"the-bronze-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=33754","title":{"rendered":"The Bronze Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last week, Girl Scouts of the USA posthumously bestowed upon Amerie Jo Garza, 10, of Uvalde, Texas, one of the highest honors in Girl Scouting: the Bronze Cross. The Bronze Cross is awarded for saving or attempting to save life at the risk of the Girl Scout\u2019s own life. 1\/3 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bFjz0I4awa\">pic.twitter.com\/bFjz0I4awa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas (@girlscoutsswtx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/girlscoutsswtx\/status\/1531645593092857856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Little girls should not have to receive posthumous awards that read like Medal of Honor citations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Girl Scouts have awarded Amerie Jo Garza the Bronze Cross for bravery following her death in the Uvalde school shooting. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CBBlmELq1H\">https:\/\/t.co\/CBBlmELq1H<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1531955991901876226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We have failed as a society. We failed Amerie Jo Garza, her classmates, and teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Girl Scouts have posthumously awarded Amerie Jo Garza, 10, of Uvalde, one of the highest honors in the organization: the Bronze Cross.<br><br>The Bronze Cross is awarded for saving or attempting to save life at the risk of the Girl Scout\u2019s own life. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JogcfNzYvv\">https:\/\/t.co\/JogcfNzYvv<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Texas Public Radio (@TPRNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPRNews\/status\/1532069108917092352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m having a difficult time processing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little girls should not have to receive posthumous awards that read like Medal of Honor citations. We have failed as a society. We failed Amerie Jo Garza, her classmates, and teachers. I&#8217;m having a difficult time processing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[5082,5084,5083],"class_list":["post-33754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-girl-scouts","tag-school-shooting","tag-uvalde","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}