{"id":2983,"date":"2012-10-22T06:14:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T06:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2012-10-22T06:14:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T06:14:55","slug":"brave-homeowner-takes-bullets-to-save-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2983","title":{"rendered":"Brave homeowner takes bullets to save family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2984\" title=\"crime\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>A 31-year old man\u2019s bravery could have cost him his life but it stopped three robbers from entering his home.<\/p>\n<p>According to Capt Jethro Mtshali, Kempton Park SAPS spokesman, the man was shot in the stomach during a scuffle with an armed robber who entered his Pomona home with two other robbers at about 4am on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis wife recounted how they heard sounds of people breaking into their home in the early hours of the morning,\u201d said Mtshali.<\/p>\n<p>The man got out of bed and went to the kitchen where the sounds came from and walked outside to check who was in their property.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile he was outside, he must have come across the robbers and in an attempt to stop them from entering the home, a scuffle ensued. The wife heard a gunshot which sent her running to find her husband bleeding,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>The robbers fled the scene immediately and the police were alerted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe man was taken to Arwyp in a stable condition,\u201d added Mtshali. &#8211; looklocal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year old man\u2019s bravery could have cost him his life but it stopped three robbers from entering his home. According to Capt Jethro Mtshali, Kempton Park SAPS spokesman, the man was shot in the stomach during a scuffle with an armed robber who entered his Pomona home with two other robbers at about 4am &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brave homeowner takes bullets to save family&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[31,34,1898,1899,12250],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-armed-robbery","tag-crime","tag-gun-attack","tag-homeowner","tag-south-africa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/crime.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2985,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}