{"id":21756,"date":"2011-01-08T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T19:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21756"},"modified":"2011-01-08T16:23:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T20:23:25","slug":"this-is-pretty-terrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21756","title":{"rendered":"This is pretty terrible (Updated 2X)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21749\">Yesterday, I mentioned Democrat Gabrielle Giffords <\/a>who wanted to cut pay and budgets in Congress by 5%. Today at <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/310404.php\">Ace of Spades<\/a> I see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/01\/08\/132764367\/congresswoman-shot-in-arizona\">she was murdered at a political event<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff&#8217;s office confirms.<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Democrat, who was re-elected to her third term in November, was hosting a &#8220;Congress on Your Corner&#8221; event at a Safeway in northwest Tucson when a gunman ran up and started shooting, according to Peter Michaels, news director of Arizona Public Media.<\/p>\n<p>At least three other people, including members of her staff, were injured. Giffords was transported to University Medical Center in Tucson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is truly shocking. I won&#8217;t speculate but, I&#8217;m pretty sure our man Operator Dan will keep up with it since it&#8217;s in his neighborhood. I think Jacobite is down that way, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> According to Fox, she&#8217;s in surgery so obviously she&#8217;s not dead yet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that since its in AZ, no one returned fire on the gunman. <\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE II:<\/strong> The Left has already started pointing fingers. <a href=\"http:\/\/tbogg.firedoglake.com\/2011\/01\/08\/sarah-palins-hit-list\/\">Firedog Lake<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogforarizona.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/jesse-kelly-event-is-this-wording-intentional.html\">Blog for Arizona<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I mentioned Democrat Gabrielle Giffords who wanted to cut pay and budgets in Congress by &hellip; <a title=\"This is pretty terrible (Updated 2X)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21756\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is pretty terrible (Updated 2X)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}