{"id":58240,"date":"2015-02-15T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58240"},"modified":"2015-02-14T17:22:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:22:50","slug":"sunday-morning-feel-good-story-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58240","title":{"rendered":"Sunday morning feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s feel good story happened several days ago, but I don&#8217;t think we wrote about this fellow from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsanantonio.com\/news\/features\/top-stories\/stories\/homeowner-used-gun-stop-burglar-breaks-his-silence-10157.shtml#.VN_IxS4bnm4\">Texas<\/a> who ran into an armed homeowner;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Henry Rodriguez is still reeling from the close encounter he had Sunday just before noon.<\/p>\n<p>It happened near I-10 and Rredericksburg, on west Mistletoe Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez was upstairs, resting when he heard noises. &#8220;A really loud knocking that woke me up.&#8221; That&#8217;s exactly what it was a really loud knocking that woke me up.&#8221; He went downstairs to check things out. That&#8217;s when he says he came face to face with a stranger standing in his living room.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feeling threatened, I just grabbed my pistol. It was either me or him literally.\u201d Rodriguez had reason to feel threatened. We tracked eight previous home burglaries near his west mistletoe avenue home.<\/p>\n<p>He says he grabbed his 9mm Smith and Wesson to stop the intruder in his tracks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I practice at the range doing five shot bursts and lucky for him I only shot twice.&#8221; He then used his cell phone to dial 911.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived 35-year old Rudy Perez was taken to the hospital and eventually charged with burglary. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s feel good story happened several days ago, but I don&#8217;t think we wrote about this fellow from Texas who ran into an armed homeowner; Henry Rodriguez is still reeling from the close encounter he had Sunday just before noon. It happened near I-10 and Rredericksburg, on west Mistletoe Avenue. Rodriguez was upstairs, resting when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-good-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Police-line.jpeg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-f9m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}