{"id":39014,"date":"2013-12-25T08:03:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39014"},"modified":"2013-12-26T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T15:09:43","slug":"we-all-santa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39014","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We all Santa today&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our nation&#8217;s capital yesterday, one of Santa&#8217;s helpers was shot in the back with a pellet gun while he was delivering toys to children who live in Barry Farm &#8211; a district in Southeast DC which is almost all public housing projects. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\/story\/24296629\/man-dressed-as-santa-claus-shot-with-pellet-gun#axzz2oURfHQmi\">MyFoxDC<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Xavier Hawkins was leading the way down Stevens Road in Southeast D.C. when someone fired as many as three shots.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old is doing okay Tuesday night &#8212; thankful he was hit and not any of the children who were around him. Hawkins was briefly hospitalized before being released in the early afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The Interstate Van Lines employee was playing the role he plays every year when someone tried to ruin Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>For 22 years, Interstate Van Lines has worked with the Marines to make Christmas just a little bit brighter for the children who live in Barry Farm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/WTTG.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=340575;hostDomain=www.myfoxdc.com;playerWidth=630;playerHeight=355;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9666403;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxdc.com\" title=\"DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG\">DC News FOX 5 DC WTTG<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our nation&#8217;s capital yesterday, one of Santa&#8217;s helpers was shot in the back with a &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;We all Santa today&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39014\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;We all Santa today&#8221;<\/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":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39014","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=39014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}