{"id":39042,"date":"2013-12-27T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39042"},"modified":"2013-12-26T17:38:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T22:38:30","slug":"friday-morning-feel-good-story-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39042","title":{"rendered":"Friday morning feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends a link to this morning&#8217;s feel good story, this time it&#8217;s from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/community-news\/best-southwest\/headlines\/20131225-intruder-killed-by-cedar-hill-homeowner-on-christmas-eve.ece\"> Cedar Hill, Texas<\/a> on Christmas Eve when Gareth Long heard someone break into his house through a window, so he grabbed his gun;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Knox said Long told the intruder, whom authorities identified as Slaven, that he had a weapon and repeatedly asked him to leave before shooting the man.<\/p>\n<p>Cedar Hill city spokesman Corky Brown said the investigation has supported Long\u2019s account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The self-made victim, Joshua Slaven, was the mayor&#8217;s stepson who had a record of being a pest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/Cedar-Hill-Mayors-Step-Son-Killed-During-Home-Break-In-237292521.html\">and some drug abuse<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police records show [Cedar Hill Mayor Rob Franke] called officers to report his stepson had assaulted him on Nov. 17 after Franke \u201cconfronted him about a drug addiction.\u201d Slaven was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 25, Slaven returned to the home and a 31-day protective order was issued to keep him away, according to city records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The house that Slaven broke into and entered was near his step-father&#8217;s home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends a link to this morning&#8217;s feel good story, this time it&#8217;s from Cedar &hellip; <a title=\"Friday morning feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39042\"><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-39042","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\/39042","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=39042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}