{"id":7908,"date":"2013-09-17T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=7908"},"modified":"2013-09-16T22:49:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T02:49:43","slug":"a-home-invasion-a-house-fire-and-a-punching-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/17\/a-home-invasion-a-house-fire-and-a-punching-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"A home invasion, a house fire and a punching bag."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say, That&#8217;s Odd. Something just ain&#8217;t right with this story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourgv.com\/index.php\/news\/local-news\/8802-early-morning-house-fire-treated-as-possible-crime\" target=\"_blank\">Victim tied to punching bag; home invasion, fire probed<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m no police investigator, bet I&#8217;d bet anybody that this simply wasn&#8217;t a random crime. 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