{"id":45621,"date":"2014-05-02T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=45621"},"modified":"2014-05-01T19:26:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T23:26:05","slug":"friday-morning-feel-good-story-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45621","title":{"rendered":"Friday morning feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us our fell good story this morning from <a href=\"http:\/\/kdvr.com\/2014\/04\/30\/woman-turns-tables-on-armed-intruder-in-her-home\/\">Denver<\/a>, this time is a good gal with a gun who defender her home and her family;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mary Kelso says she and her young son were spending a quiet morning at home when a man knocked on the door.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he knew my husband and asked me for his phone number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t recognize him, so she closed the door to get a pen and paper. That\u2019s when she says he burst through the door with his gun drawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe let himself in \u2026 took me to my bedroom at gunpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he didn\u2019t know that Mary had a gun, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have a concealed carry permit and a handgun and I immediately went for that. I grabbed my firearm and we both just aimed at each other but mine was in the case so I couldn\u2019t pull the trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She says he threw her onto the bed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI immediately thought he was going to shoot me and I was trying to figure out how I was going to shoot him \u2014 injured \u2014 because my son was in the house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mary fought back, kicking him into the dresser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grabbed my gun and reached around to hit him. We struggled with his gun \u2026 I ended up pulling the trigger.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script height=\"300px\" width=\"500px\" src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/iframe.js#pbid=47658b6fe4a043a48f5296392ce1db7f&#038;ec=MxdHNwbTq59RRotqY5ARRVttNfTE5BHj\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us our fell good story this morning from Denver, this time is a &hellip; <a title=\"Friday morning feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45621\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday morning feel good story<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45621","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=45621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}