{"id":1656,"date":"2012-12-16T14:54:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T20:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:49:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:49:32","slug":"a-fathers-grief-and-grace-in-newtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2012\/12\/16\/a-fathers-grief-and-grace-in-newtown\/","title":{"rendered":"A Father&#8217;s Grief and Grace in Newtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2012\/12\/newtown-angels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1657\" title=\"newtown angels\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2012\/12\/newtown-angels.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2012\/12\/newtown-angels.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/2012\/12\/newtown-angels-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/12\/16\/us\/connecticut-emilie-parker\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">from CNN<\/a> (take 3 minutes to watch the video if you have a chance):<\/p>\n<p>Robbie Parker has a message for the family of the gunman who killed his 6-year-old daughter and 19 of her school mates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine how hard this experience must be for you, and I want you to know that our family and our love and our support goes out to you as well,&#8221; Parker said, as he remembered his oldest girl, Emilie Alice.<\/p>\n<p>Emilie died Friday at the hands of a gunman who opened fire at her elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, in the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fighting back tears with his voice cracking, Parker asked Saturday night that the tragedy &#8220;not turn into something that defines us, but something that inspires us to be better, to be more compassionate and more humble people.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN (take 3 minutes to watch the video if you have a chance): Robbie Parker has a message for the family of the gunman who killed his 6-year-old daughter and 19 of her school mates. &#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine how hard this experience must be for you, and I want you to know that our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,15],"class_list":["post-1656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}