{"id":2528,"date":"2009-10-27T12:37:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T19:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2013-03-02T14:39:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T21:39:48","slug":"response-from-woman-featured-in-the-great-equalizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2009\/10\/27\/response-from-woman-featured-in-the-great-equalizer\/","title":{"rendered":"Response from Woman Featured in ‘The Great Equalizer’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n

It was my husband who sent you the story you used in your Monday blog.<\/p>\n

That was me. Yes I was scared to death.<\/p>\n

I got up there in the line of 40 people and the tears started running down my face uncontrollably.\u00a0 I don’t like violence and I was afraid there would be an accident with a gun in the house.\u00a0 Your instructors came over to me and were so sweet to me.\u00a0 They were understanding and calmed me down. They said I didn’t have to do anything I didn’t want to.<\/p>\n

I decided I had to overcome this fear. The way the economy is, there is going to be a lot of people desperate for food and money and more and more burglaries.\u00a0 I do not want to be one of those woman left for dead when someone breaks into my house.\u00a0 I am often left alone at home with my 3 year old grandson.\u00a0 I have to protect him.<\/p>\n

I now feel comfortable that I can defend myself from an intruder.<\/p>\n

Thank you to all of your instructors and all of their patience with me.<\/p>\n

Gratefully yours,
\nLaurie W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Dr. Piazza, It was my husband who sent you the story you used in your Monday blog. That was me. Yes I was scared to death. I got up there in the line of 40 people and the tears started running down my face uncontrollably.\u00a0 I don’t like violence and I was afraid there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,41],"tags":[402,841,1129,1327,2648,416,4285,3430,4284,232,1641,1485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6101,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/6101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}