{"id":2169,"date":"2025-11-03T07:58:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2025-11-03T07:58:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T07:58:33","slug":"jd-vance-underwent-surgery-before-being-sworn-in-as-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=2169","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance underwent surgery before being sworn in as VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">JD Vance rose to fame with his 2016 memoir <em>Hillbilly Elegy<\/em>. Before entering politics, he served in the Marine Corps (2003\u20132007), including as a combat correspondent in Iraq, and worked briefly as a venture capitalist.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">His childhood was marked by hardship: parental divorce, his mother\u2019s violent tendencies, and a near-fatal car incident. He and his half-sister Lindsay were raised by their grandparents. Vance credits his grandmother for steering him away from drugs with a stark warning.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">He graduated from Ohio State University (2009) and Yale Law School (2013). Now Vice President\u2014the youngest since Nixon\u2014he underwent minor sinus surgery shortly after his January 2025 swearing-in and returned to work within 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance rose to fame with his 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Before entering politics, he served in the Marine Corps (2003\u20132007), including as a combat correspondent in Iraq, and worked briefly as a venture capitalist. His childhood was marked by hardship: parental divorce, his mother\u2019s violent tendencies, and a near-fatal car incident. He and his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}