{"id":15572,"date":"2017-07-06T23:42:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T04:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/?p=15572"},"modified":"2017-07-10T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T16:49:32","slug":"husband-poured-gas-fire-burning-40-body-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/07\/husband-poured-gas-fire-burning-40-body-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Husband Poured Gas on a Fire, Burning 40% of Her Body &#8211; Then, He Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15573\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/156\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-06-at-11.35.03-PM-e1499402206126.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-07-06 at 11.35.03 PM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/p>\n<p>This is so inspirational. \u00a0A woman in Georgia named Courtney was with her husband camping out when he put gasoline onto their camp fire. The result of the fire was incredible burns on 40% of her body.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-4670500\/Community-builds-house-Georgia-burns-survivor.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> has the details:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A young mother\u00a0battling to reclaim her life after experiencing horrific burns has revealed how she refuses to let the stares and cruel remarks of strangers hold her back.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ext-gen133\" class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On September 30, 2016, Courtney Waldon, 27, from Tallapoosa, Georgia, went through the most excruciating pain that left her with burns over 40% of her face and body after gasoline was poured on a campfire.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ext-gen135\" class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After being through several skin grafts and being in the hospital for 51 days, Courtney and her husband separated, which left her and her daughter with no income and the pair ended up homeless with\u00a0medical bills over \u00a32M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">To make matters worse, she has to endure constant stares and cruel remarks about her changed appearance.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ext-gen137\" class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She said: \u2018I get stared at constantly like I am a monster. People just make rude comments. But it\u2019s okay. I am stronger than they are. I get through it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her husband left her. \u00a0Yes, really. \u00a0So, this young mother had no income and $2 million worth of medical bills. \u00a0But a community, led by the church, stepped in and did this:<br>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"molvideoplayer\" title=\"MailOnline Embed Player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/embed\/video\/1496501.html\" width=\"698\" height=\"573\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br>\n<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>What an inspiration \u2014 both Courtney and her loving community!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Image Credit: Screen Cap<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>h\/t Daily Mail<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I get stared at like I&#8217;m a monster&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"featured_media":15573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Her Husband Poured Gas on a Fire, Burning 40% of Her Body - Then, He Left<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&#039;I get stared at like I&#039;m a monster&#039;\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/07\/husband-poured-gas-fire-burning-40-body-left\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Her Husband Poured Gas on a Fire, Burning 40% of Her Body - Then, He Left\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#039;I get stared at like I&#039;m a monster&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/07\/husband-poured-gas-fire-burning-40-body-left\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bristol Palin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-07-07T04:42:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-07-10T16:49:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/156\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-06-at-11.35.03-PM-e1499402206126.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"338\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bristol Palin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bristol Palin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/07\/husband-poured-gas-fire-burning-40-body-left\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/07\/husband-poured-gas-fire-burning-40-body-left\/\",\"name\":\"Her Husband Poured Gas on a Fire, Burning 40% of Her Body - Then, He Left\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-07-07T04:42:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-07-10T16:49:32+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/#\/schema\/person\/ad6f9fac0a5a8263d8e246079e288a2d\"},\"description\":\"'I get stared at like I'm a monster'\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/07\/husband-poured-gas-fire-burning-40-body-left\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/07\/husband-poured-gas-fire-burning-40-body-left\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/2017\/07\/husband-poured-gas-fire-burning-40-body-left\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bristolpalin\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Her Husband Poured Gas on a Fire, Burning 40% of Her Body &#8211; 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