{"id":440,"date":"2006-12-12T11:28:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T09:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/2006\/12\/12\/close-to-home\/"},"modified":"2006-12-12T11:28:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T09:28:01","slug":"close-to-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/12\/close-to-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Close to Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several items of news in the U.S. over the past week have hit close to home.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2009-12-6141617.html\">James Kim<\/a> died while trying to save his family in a snowstorm very near to my parents&#8217; house and where we spent some time this summer.&nbsp; James was my age, and an editor of a website I read frequently.<\/p>\n<p>The mall where Kelli shopped this summer in Rockford, Illinois was the target of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rrstar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20061208\/NEWS02\/112080067\/1001\">terrorist plot<\/a> this month.&nbsp; The FBI caught him before he could blow up the Cherry Vale shopping center.<\/p>\n<p>And apparently green onions from my birth city of Oxnard, California was the cause of the dozens of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-tacobell8dec08,0,5275135.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">sick Taco Bell customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These things make me sad, and they also lead me to ask,<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t you scared to live in America?&nbsp; It sounds very dangerous from the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several items of news in the U.S. over the past week have hit close to home.&nbsp; James Kim died while trying to save his family in a snowstorm very near to my parents&#8217; house and where we spent some time this summer.&nbsp; James was my age, and an editor of a website I read frequently.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/12\/close-to-home\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}