{"id":1953,"date":"2025-04-12T17:54:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/the-random-slaughter-of-the-gilligan-family\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T17:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T17:54:03","slug":"the-random-slaughter-of-the-gilligan-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-random-slaughter-of-the-gilligan-family\/","title":{"rendered":"The Random Slaughter of the Gilligan Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Gilligan, his wife, Theresa, and<br>\nhis two children, Lisa, 5 and Gregory, 4<br>\narrived at their home in Evansville,<br>\nIndiana on January 14, 1980<br>\nand were shot to death by a killer<br>\nnamed Donald Ray Wallace,<br>\nwho had been robbing their home.<\/p>\n<p>It so sad and so tragic that often in<br>\nthis world, good people who harmed<br>\nno one are randomly murdered, as<br>\nif this life is often like a matter of<br>\ngood or bad luck.<\/p>\n<p>And even though most of us feel safe<br>\nand take precautions to avoid being<br>\nvictims of murders, sometimes we<br>\nbecome the randomly murdered like<br>\nall those who felt as if random murders<br>\nonly happened to other, unknown people<br>\nthey saw or heard about on the news.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd   <\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Gilligan, his wife, Theresa, and his two children, Lisa, 5 and Gregory, 4 arrived at their home in Evansville, Indiana on January 14, 1980 and were shot to death by a killer named Donald Ray Wallace, who had been robbing their home. It so sad and so tragic that often in this world, good&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/the-random-slaughter-of-the-gilligan-family\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}