{"id":39129,"date":"2014-01-03T06:09:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T11:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39129"},"modified":"2014-01-03T06:09:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T11:09:05","slug":"friday-morning-feel-good-story-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39129","title":{"rendered":"Friday morning feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for today. The first is from <a href=\"http:\/\/whotv.com\/2014\/01\/02\/morning-shooting-des-moines-police-investigate\/\">Iowa<\/a> where a couple of people tried to turn their lives around in a stranger&#8217;s home;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police were called to 3118 Jefferson Street just after 4:00 a.m. on an attempted burglary.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived the victim, Rick Holland, told them two men had kicked open the door of his home. Holland used a 9mm Glock and shot a number of shots at the suspects as they fled the scene, hitting one of one of the suspects in the arm.<\/p>\n<p>Mercy Hospital contacted police around 4:30 a.m. and let police know a man had been brought in suffering from a gunshot wound to the arm. The man was identified as 19-year-old Jesus Diaz. He initially told officers he had been shot in an argument near 30th and Forest Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation police were able to determine a vehicle at Diaz\u2019s residence matched the description of the vehicle seen leaving the earlier burglary.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz then admitted to officers that he and a friend, who is a juvenile, tried to break into the home at 3118 Jefferson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script height=\"300px\" width=\"500px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=65279b80531146eea3c65f3510b1c4b9&#038;ec=trd3NmajpGYQ7HVs6v2Hoc79W6bP4_-w\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The second story comes from Ohio, where 90-year-old George Hicks confronted someone who wanted to turn his life around with ill-gotten booty from Hick&#8217;s laundromat.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man came into R&#038;J Laundromat on Monday afternoon and demanded  money from the owner, George Hicks, 90. Hicks grabbed his gun and chased the robber out the door and then called 911.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt of that call:<br \/>\n911 Dispatcher: &#8220;Did he take any money?&#8221;<br \/>\nVictim: &#8220;No. No. When he shoved me, I jumped up and went for my gun and when I went for my gun I said I&#8217;ll blow your (expletive) brains out and he was gone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to shake the man&#8217;s hand,&#8221; Tom Mauro said. Mauro owns the Third Base Drive Thru.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Video is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.local12.com\/news\/features\/top-stories\/stories\/90yearold-business-owner-fights-off-robber-6803.shtml\">the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us our feel good stories for today. The first is from Iowa where &hellip; <a title=\"Friday morning feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39129\"><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-39129","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\/39129","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=39129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}