{"id":37160,"date":"2013-08-19T18:55:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37160"},"modified":"2013-08-19T18:55:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T22:55:15","slug":"monday-feel-good-story-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37160","title":{"rendered":"Monday feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends a link to today&#8217;s feel good story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/publicsafety\/crime\/woman-kills-attacker-at-brandon-apartment-complex\/2136995\">Tampa Bay Times<\/a> about Vickie Rock who came to the aid of Cristy Vasilakos whose life Daniel Robertson was trying to turn around. Robertson, it seems was a but inebriated as well as adamant about something to the point of beating Vasilakos with a metal object. <\/p>\n<p>Ms. Rock heard the commotion and went out to investigate with her .45 caliber life changer in hand;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Rock tried to intercede, Robertson turned on her. Rock suffered several facial injuries before firing at least one round and striking Robertson, McKinnon said.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson, 56, staggered away and was found dead in the parking lot a few minutes later by deputies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Vasilakos had never met Rock before. She hadn&#8217;t realized Rock had a gun until it went off. Even then, she didn&#8217;t know how serious Robertson&#8217;s injuries were. &#8220;I had no idea he was dying,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She understands why Rock fired, though.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She was doing her part,&#8221; Vasilakos said. &#8220;I feel like she stood her ground. He was on top of her when she shot him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, at least one of the doinks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/1172130439\">Democratic Undergroun<\/a>d got it all wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends a link to today&#8217;s feel good story in the Tampa Bay Times about &hellip; <a title=\"Monday feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37160\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday feel good story<\/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":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37160","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=37160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}