{"id":4751,"date":"2011-02-26T06:24:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2011-02-26T06:24:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T11:24:59","slug":"dont-mess-with-anderson-vets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/dont-mess-with-anderson-vets\/","title":{"rendered":"don&#8217;t mess with Anderson Vets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Ernest Bagwell&#8217;s remarks after a mugger got away with his wallet:\u00a0<strong>\u201cIt looks like he won the first round. But he\u2019s welcome to come back for round number two. We\u2019ll see who wins this time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentmail.com\/news\/2011\/feb\/24\/76-year-old-fights-off-mugger-in-his-driveway\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anderson Independent Mail<\/a> &#8211; ANDERSON COUNTY \u2014 After a young man standing an arm\u2019s length away pointed a gun at his chest, 76-year-old Ernest Bagwell wrestled him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Bagwell was standing in his open-sided garage when the man parked his car in the road in front of Bagwell\u2019s driveway and silently walked up, surprising the homeowner.<\/p>\n<p>With a handgun, possibly a .45-caliber, pointed straight at his chest from about a foot and a half away, Bagwell reacted and grabbed his mugger\u2019s wrist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was keeping the gun pointed away from me and he was trying to pull it back,\u201d Bagwell said. \u201cLike I said, I ain\u2019t gonna give up without a fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"100\" height=\"100\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"embedded_player\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"embedded_player\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Ernest Bagwell&#8217;s remarks after a mugger got away with his wallet:\u00a0\u201cIt looks like he won the first round. But he\u2019s welcome to come back for round number two. We\u2019ll see who wins this time.\u201d Anderson Independent Mail &#8211; ANDERSON COUNTY \u2014 After a young man standing an arm\u2019s length away pointed a gun at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-1eD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}