{"id":6082,"date":"2011-01-05T22:11:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T06:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=6082"},"modified":"2011-01-05T22:11:21","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T06:11:21","slug":"phoenix-jones-real-life-superhero-foils-would-be-carjacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/01\/05\/phoenix-jones-real-life-superhero-foils-would-be-carjacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Jones, &#039;Real Life Superhero,&#039; Foils Would-Be Carjacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2011\/01\/05\/phoenix-jones-real-life-superhero-foils-would-be-carjacking\/\">http:\/\/www.aolnews.com\/2011\/01\/05\/phoenix-jones-real-life-superhero-foils-would-be-carjacking\/<\/a><br \/>\nBy Steven Hoffer<br \/>\nEvil villains on the streets of Lynwood, Wash., beware: Phoenix Jones has your number.<br \/>\nJones, a heroic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirotv.com\/news\/26363364\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;real life superhero,&#8221;<\/a> spends most nights patrolling the streets of the city just north of Seattle, and, in all seriousness, helps take a bite out of crime. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1344136\/Self-styled-superhero-chases-car-thief-latest-daring-exploit-Phoenix-Jones.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent tale<\/a> straight out of a comic book, Jones arrived just in the nick of time to foil a would-be carjacking.<br \/>\n&#8220;From the right, this guy comes dashing in, wearing this skin-tight rubber, black and gold suit, and starts chasing him away,&#8221; said the car owner, who identified himself only as Dan.<br \/>\nAll in a day&#8217;s work, Jones, armed with a Taser-nightstick and mace, chased away the villain and restored Dan to safety.<br \/>\n&#8220;So when I walk into a neighborhood, criminals leave because they see the suit,&#8221; Phoenix said. &#8220;I symbolize that the average person doesn&#8217;t have to walk around and see bad things and do nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evil villains on the streets of Lynwood, Wash., beware: Phoenix Jones has your number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[205,462,592,1374,1562,2041,2181,2338,2600],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}