{"id":11523,"date":"2013-05-25T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T07:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11523"},"modified":"2013-05-25T08:47:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T07:47:07","slug":"if-you-were-faced-with-an-armed-terrorist-what-would-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=11523","title":{"rendered":"If you were faced with an armed terrorist, what would you do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Would you attempt to flee the scene or would you walk up to the terrorist and engage him in conversation?<\/p>\n<p>Here in my home city of London, this week two Muslim fundamentalists hacked to death a soldier in broad daylight as he walked in a street in Woolwich. One remarkable woman, named Ingrid Loyau-Kennet, approached the killers and engaged one in conversation. You can see a short television interview with her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/video\/2013\/may\/23\/woman-confronted-alleged-woolwich-attacker-video\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarrely, something just like this situation came to my mind as inspiration for a short story which I wrote four years ago. You can read <em>&#8220;A Moment In Time&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Story7.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you attempt to flee the scene or would you walk up to the terrorist and engage him in conversation? Here in my home city of London, this week two Muslim fundamentalists hacked to death a soldier in broad daylight as he walked in a street in Woolwich. One remarkable woman, named Ingrid Loyau-Kennet, approached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11523"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11534,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11523\/revisions\/11534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}