{"id":59468,"date":"2015-04-24T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59468"},"modified":"2015-04-23T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:51:19","slug":"friday-morning-feel-good-stories-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59468","title":{"rendered":"Friday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first stop on our tour of American towns that are marginally safer this morning is <a href=\"http:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2015\/04\/23\/off-duty-officer-opens-fire-at-armed-suspect-in-overbrook\/\">Pennsylvania<\/a> where criminals are having trouble picking out prospective victims;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police say after work, the officer was walking his dog when the suspect approached the officer from behind. The officer then drew his weapon when he saw the suspect was armed and both exchanged gunfire. The officer fired eight times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would appear the assailant took him for a victim,\u201d says Philadelphia police captain Anthony Ginaldi. \u201cHe was pretty much surprised when he found out he was going to rob an off-duty police officer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspect took cover behind a car during the exchange, then fled the scene, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was not struck during the incident and it is unknown at this time if the suspect was struck.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/CBSPHL.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=261097;hostDomain=video.philadelphia.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=500;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11419049;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.PHILLY%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/video.philadelphia.cbslocal.com\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next stop is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmov.com\/story\/28866038\/convenience-store-robbery-gone-wrong-in-north-city\">Missouri<\/a>, where it&#8217;s getting tougher to find good victims, even in convenience stores;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Police say one of the two male suspects displayed a firearm and announced a robbery. The victim removed cash from the drawer and the suspects took the drawer and attempted to flee out of the store. As the two men were leaving, the victim retrieved a firearm and began shooting. The victim continued until outside the store, where he and the suspect exchanged fire. The man fled towards Park Lane and the other suspect went towards West Florissant until out of sight. <\/p>\n<p>Police found the suspect who had exchanged gunfire suffering from gunshot wounds to his abdomen and legs. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/KMOV.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=270530;hostDomain=www.kmov.com;playerWidth=600;playerHeight=300;isShowIcon=true;clipId=11416918;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmov.com\" title=\"KMOV.com\">KMOV.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first stop on our tour of American towns that are marginally safer this morning is &hellip; <a title=\"Friday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59468\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday morning feel good stories<\/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-59468","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\/59468","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=59468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59468\/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=59468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}