{"id":197722,"date":"2008-01-15T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/this-is-one-of-the-most-heroic-things-ive-ever-heard\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T03:39:00","slug":"this-is-one-of-the-most-heroic-things-ive-ever-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/15\/this-is-one-of-the-most-heroic-things-ive-ever-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is One of the Most Heroic Things I&#8217;ve Ever Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mercy is sometimes a very difficult thing.  It is sometimes a mark of a sort of strength that I can&#8217;t even imagine where it comes from.  <\/p>\n<p>Here we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/state\/orl-bk-toddler011508,0,7957580.story\">the parents of a toddler asking prosecutors to show leniency toward the twelve year old perpetrator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He beat their baby to death with a baseball bat, and they are asking for the prosecutors not to prosecute, and if they do, to prosecute as a minor.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know where they find the strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercy is sometimes a very difficult thing. It is sometimes a mark of a sort of strength that I can&#8217;t even imagine where it comes from. Here we have the parents of a toddler asking prosecutors to show leniency toward the twelve year old perpetrator. He beat their baby to death with a baseball bat, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1169,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroism","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}