{"id":46118,"date":"2014-05-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=46118"},"modified":"2014-05-06T18:07:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T22:07:22","slug":"wednesday-feel-good-story-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46118","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first feel good story comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpho.com\/story\/25442050\/phoenix-pd-burglary-suspect-shot-by-homeowner\">Phoenix, AZ<\/a> a little after 7 AM on Tuesday;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 47-year-old woman who lives alone in the home said she heard someone trying to break into her house and called 911, but the suspect was then in the house, said Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>The woman grabbed a gun and the suspect, a man in his 20s who entered through an Arcadia door in the back, chased her around the house until she ran into a bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect followed, not knowing she was armed, and punched her before he was shot by the woman, Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson said the shooting appeared to be justified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us a second story from <a href=\"http:\/\/dfw.cbslocal.com\/2014\/05\/03\/dallas-woman-shoots-kills-man-stabbing-her\/\">Dallas<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Friday evening, Martin was sitting in her car, talking to an unidentified female resident. Police say the two began arguing, which prompted the woman\u2019s husband, 52-year-old Louis Rodriguez, to come over.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Rodriguez joined the \u201cfight\u201d between his wife and Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Feeling uneasy, Martin placed a handgun on her lap that was inside her purse, and remained inside her vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>It was then that Rodriguez pulled a knife out and began stabbing Martin.<\/p>\n<p>In self-defense, Martin fired her handgun several times at Rodriguez, ultimately killing him.<\/p>\n<p>As shots were fired, Rodriguez\u2019s brother, whose name is unknown, was accidentally hit by a bullet in the abdomen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think if I was in my car, I would have drove away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first feel good story comes from Phoenix, AZ a little after 7 AM on Tuesday; &hellip; <a title=\"Wednesday feel good story\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=46118\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday 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-46118","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\/46118","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=46118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}