{"id":37588,"date":"2013-09-15T07:25:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T11:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37588"},"modified":"2013-09-15T07:25:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T11:25:32","slug":"sunday-feel-good-story-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37588","title":{"rendered":"Sunday feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.valleycentral.com\/news\/story.aspx?id=944039#.UjWXGD9-rpx\">a link to today&#8217;s feel good story<\/a> about a pregnant Texas woman who was reluctant to let her husband have a gun in their house, but has had a &#8220;come to Jesus moment&#8221; on the issue after two drug-addled men tried to break into her home when she was alone;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;By myself with 911 on one hand and the gun on the other and I&#8217;m just a nervous wreck. I don&#8217;t know what to do &#8230;I yelled and I told the 911 &#8216;Oh my gosh, he broke in!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex said she&#8217;s never felt comfortable with the idea of using a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Still, her husband insisted on showing her how to use one just a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nervous&#8230;It took me a very long time to pull the trigger and he said, &#8216;when you&#8217;re in a situation like that- you&#8217;re not going to think twice,'&#8221; recalled Alex.<\/p>\n<p>She said that exactly what happened.<\/p>\n<p>Once the men realized Alex was armed and ready to defend her home, they ran back towards their truck.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The adrenaline kicked in and I just shot at the vehicle,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Alex aimed at the vehicle to scare off the burglars also hoping an identifying mark that would help police track it down.<\/p>\n<p>She adds her intentions were not to shoot the men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4pgwpYWPUEY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-PH2 sends us a link to today&#8217;s feel good story about a pregnant Texas woman who &hellip; <a title=\"Sunday feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37588\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday 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-37588","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\/37588","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=37588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}