{"id":38834,"date":"2013-12-13T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38834"},"modified":"2013-12-12T17:36:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:36:01","slug":"friday-morning-feel-good-story-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38834","title":{"rendered":"Friday morning feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s feel good story comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opposingviews.com\/i\/society\/guns\/memphis-homeowner-shoots-burglar-while-waiting-police-arrive#\">Memphis<\/a> and it was actually last week, but we can still celebrate, can&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The homeowner called 911 when he heard the glass of a back room window break. But before officers could arrive, the two suspects were already inside the home; that\u2019s when the homeowner decided to take action.<\/p>\n<p>He shot at the intruders, injuring one of them.<\/p>\n<p>That suspect was later found about a block away and taken to a local hospital where he remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are still looking for the second suspect who fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>This type of incident is common in the area of Hickory Hill, says resident and neighbor Audrienne Owens, who lives only a few houses down. Owens said someone tried to break into her home through the back door in broad daylight a while ago. The homeowner, she says, acted within his rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s your property, you should have the right to do it, cause you work hard for your things, you really do,\u201d she told WREG.<\/p>\n<p>Another female resident, who didn\u2019t want to be identified, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not you taking the law in your hands; it\u2019s exercising your right as a citizen,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you\u2019re foolish enough to put your life on the line, I\u2019m not. I want to live.\u201d That female resident also said her gun is always loaded and she is ready to protect herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup, I don&#8217;t have anything in my home worth dying for, but you will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s feel good story comes from Memphis and it was actually last week, but we &hellip; <a title=\"Friday morning feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38834\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday morning 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-38834","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\/38834","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=38834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}