{"id":2851,"date":"2010-09-22T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/an-unhappy-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2011-05-16T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T01:27:56","slug":"an-unhappy-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/an-unhappy-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unhappy Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/paintball-shot\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; display: inline\" alt=\"photo of paintball wound\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-content\/mine\/shot.jpg\" \/><\/a>Let me tell you the story that goes with this picture, if you don\u2019t know it already. Seven years ago tonight, Merri and I were walking our dog Lucky around our neighborhood after dark as we did every night. On this occasion, a car sped up behind us. We heard two small explosions and each instantly felt searing pain in our backs. As awful as that pain was \u2014 and it was intense \u2014 it was nothing compared to seeing the expression on Merri\u2019s face when she cried \u201cI\u2019ve been shot!\u201d while grappling with my own overwhelming fear and pain. It was horrible and I wish a comparable misery on the shooter and his gang. The shooter who cackled wickedly as the car sped by. <\/p>\n<p>Remember, guns don\u2019t shoot people, idiots shoot people. And cowardly, brutal idiots shoot strangers in the back. peace, mjh<\/p>\n<p><small>[originally posted 9\/22\/09]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me tell you the story that goes with this picture, if you don\u2019t know it already. Seven years ago tonight, Merri and I were walking our dog Lucky around our neighborhood after dark as we did every night. On this occasion, a car sped up behind us. We heard two small explosions and each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/the-atheists-pulpit\/an-unhappy-anniversary\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Unhappy Anniversary<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-atheists-pulpit","tag-paintball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}