{"id":10463,"date":"2005-07-10T08:46:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T08:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/samhilliard.com\/wordpress?p=10463"},"modified":"2005-07-10T08:46:21","modified_gmt":"2005-07-10T08:46:21","slug":"when-i-run-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/2005\/07\/10\/when-i-run-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"When I run dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When there&#8217;s nothing to blog about, the news never fails to spark some interest.  A small piece from Kentucky is today&#8217;s winner.  With a photo caption that reads <a href='http:\/\/www.channelcincinnati.com\/news\/4702890\/detail.html'>Wrong Door,<\/a> the related story describes a break-in and shooting at a private residence.<\/p>\n<p>Two thugs kicked in the door of a 79 year old man at 5am, only inside they found no ordinary retiree or convalescent.  This Grandpa fired his .357 Magnum and made short work of the intruders.<\/p>\n<p>Older people with guns is about as scary being stuck behind their Buicks in traffic, but the real question:  what&#8217;s up with the caption under the photo and the quote from the neighbor \u2013 the bit that says Wrong Door.  What would have been the Right Door?  A wheelchair bound woman who had no means to defend herself?  How about a single parent of three?  Actually, this was the Right Door, and this gentlemen did his neighbors a favor.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the real tragedy here is that they didn&#8217;t pay him a \u201cvisit\u201d earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When there&#8217;s nothing to blog about, the news never fails to spark some interest. A small piece from Kentucky is today&#8217;s winner. With a photo caption that reads Wrong Door, the related story describes a break-in and shooting at a private residence. Two thugs kicked in the door of a 79 year old man at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.samhilliard.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}