{"id":59712,"date":"2015-05-10T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59712"},"modified":"2015-05-09T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T18:47:09","slug":"sunday-morning-feel-good-stories-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59712","title":{"rendered":"Sunday morning feel good stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SJ sends us our first story this morning from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcti12.com\/news\/police-one-person-sent-to-the-hopsital-with-gunshot-wound\/32905690\">North Carolina<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Winterville Police responded to Ashley Meadows Drive at 10:40 Friday night. Police said they discovered signs of forced entry at a home there. Residents of the home told police an estranged husband had broken into the home with a handgun. A person living at the home shot the man several times.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was taken to Vidant Hospital, but died because of his injuries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More effective than a restraining order, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/losangeles.cbslocal.com\/2015\/05\/07\/hesperia-resident-79-holds-violent-burglary-suspect-at-gunpoint-until-police-arrive\/\">California<\/a>, 79-year-old veteran, Richard is on guard for his neighbors;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>e saw the man scoping out his neighbor\u2019s home in the 14000 block of Willow Street when no one was home.<\/p>\n<p>The Hesperia hero confronted the suspect: \u201cI said, \u2018What are you doing?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018Well, my stuff is here.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018No, it\u2019s not here.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, Well, Steve lives here.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018No, he doesn\u2019t. You just better be on your way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018Well, you wouldn\u2019t shoot me.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Well, test me.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richard told the suspect to put his hands up on the the fence or lay down on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>But he says the would-be burglar didn\u2019t go down without a fight.<\/p>\n<p>He allegedly punched Richard in the nose, knocking him to the ground and his glasses off his face: \u201cRather than swing at him, I just protected myself like this and he beat on my back for nine or 10 times. And then I took my gun out and hit him on the foot with it, and then he backed off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he said, \u2018If I run are you going to shoot me or kill me?\u2019 I said, \u2018Go for it.\u2019 It was his choice, not mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The one-time military man says he always has a gun on him for safety reasons.\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The burglar was apprehended by police for assaulting Richard, who says that he&#8217;s pressing charges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SJ sends us our first story this morning from North Carolina; Winterville Police responded to Ashley &hellip; <a title=\"Sunday morning feel good stories\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59712\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday 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-59712","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\/59712","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=59712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59712\/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=59712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}