{"id":7793,"date":"2025-09-01T15:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/?p=7793"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:41:54","slug":"my-alive-day-johnny-joey-jones-shares-his-journey-through-parenthood-and-the-life-altering-explsi-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/?p=7793","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMy alive day\u201d: Johnny Joey Jones shares his journey through parenthood and the life-altering expl*si.on"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen years ago, Johnny Joey Jones stepped on an IED in Afghanistan, a moment that cost him both legs and claimed the life of a fellow Marine.<\/p>\n

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The Fox News contributor marks every August 6 not with sorrow, but with purpose. It\u2019s his Alive Day, the day he nearly d**d, but didn\u2019t. \u201cWe celebrate it like a birthday every year,\u201d Jones, now 38, says. \u201cBe thankful for that and go do great things.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Day That Redefined His Life
\nOn August 6, 2010, then-24-year-old Marine Staff Sergeant Jones was clearing the streets of Safar Bazaar, Afghanistan. His two-man bomb disposal team had already uncovered more than 30 IEDs in just five days. The Taliban had seeded the area with expl*sives in hopes of inflicting lasting damage, long after they\u2019d retreated.<\/p>\n

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Fifteen years ago, Johnny Joey Jones stepped on an IED in Afghanistan, a moment that cost him both legs and claimed the life of a fellow Marine. The Fox News contributor marks every August 6 not with sorrow, but with purpose. It\u2019s his Alive Day, the day he nearly d**d, but didn\u2019t. \u201cWe celebrate it…<\/p>\n

Read More “\u201cMy alive day\u201d: Johnny Joey Jones shares his journey through parenthood and the life-altering expl*si.on”<\/span> »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7795,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions\/7795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendusa1.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}