{"id":23220,"date":"2024-12-20T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T19:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23220"},"modified":"2025-02-18T16:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:57:28","slug":"the-night-we-were-saved-by-a-future-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23220","title":{"rendered":"The Night We Were Saved by a Future Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car broke down in a remote area. With no mobiles, we waited until a college student offered us a ride to town. We tried to pay him, but he said, \u201cHappy to help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Years later, my wife called me in tears, urging me to check the news. The \u201cstudent\u201d was actually a 35-year-old wanted criminal who had robbed over 30 people in remote areas, targeting late-night drivers.<\/p>\n<p>I had chills realizing how close we came to danger. Perhaps he spared us because there were two of us, or I appeared intimidating. Whatever the reason, we were incredibly lucky to leave that night unharmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I were returning from a party at 2 AM when our car broke down in a remote area. With no mobiles, we waited until a college student offered us a ride to town. We tried to pay him, but he said, \u201cHappy to help.\u201d Years later, my wife called me in tears, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23220"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25614,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220\/revisions\/25614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}