{"id":1107,"date":"2006-03-02T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2006-03-02T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T16:41:00","slug":"death-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1107","title":{"rendered":"Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s new with your brother&#8217;s friend, shot in the head, you may ask?<\/p>\n<p>The coverage in the Post continues, one article per day:<\/p>\n<p>Feb 28:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/27\/AR2006022701515.html\">There&#8217;s a policy debate<\/a><br \/>\nMar 1:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/28\/AR2006022801759.html\">People who were there dispute the officer&#8217;s account<\/a><br \/>\nMar 2:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/01\/AR2006030102313.html\">The cop who shot my brother&#8217;s friend has a lawyer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even the DC chief of police has weighed in:  <em>&#8220;We put the emphasis on better training. Striking at a moving vehicle doesn&#8217;t do you any good. If you think you had a problem before, try adding a corpse behind the wheel,&#8221; D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey said last night. &#8220;We feel better tactics, better approaches . . . is the way to go.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The funeral is on Saturday.  There&#8217;s not going to be a dry eye in the house.  My brother has been asked to perform a guitar piece at the funeral, to sing in the mens chorale at the memorial service (they&#8217;re doing the Biebel Ave Maria), and the three surviving members of the band that Aaron played in will try to put together a song or two without him.  It&#8217;s going to be one hella&#8217; rough Saturday.  He&#8217;s also been contacted by the Post reporter who is apparently doing a piece on Aaron&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p>What else to say?  I tried to get down to Baltimore to see him today, but failed due to the unexpected blizzard.  More whining on that later, most likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s new with your brother&#8217;s friend, shot in the head, you may ask?<\/p>\n<p>The coverage in the Post continues, one article per day:<\/p>\n<p>Feb 28: There&#8217;s a policy debate Mar 1: People who were there dispute the officer&#8217;s account Mar 2: The cop who shot my brother&#8217;s friend has a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Even the DC chief <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1107\">Death<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}