{"id":42388,"date":"2022-03-13T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/13\/i-was-shot-nine-times-in-the-christchurch-massacre-now-im-reclaiming-the-gunmans-journey"},"modified":"2022-03-13T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T19:00:09","slug":"i-was-shot-nine-times-in-the-christchurch-massacre-now-im-reclaiming-the-gunmans-journey-temel-atacocugu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42388","title":{"rendered":"I was shot nine times in the Christchurch massacre \u2013 now I\u2019m reclaiming the gunman\u2019s journey | Temel Ata\u00e7ocu\u011fu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking the shooter\u2019s route from Dunedin to Christchurch I\u2019ve realised I don\u2019t have to be scared any more<\/p>\n<p>Last year at the memorial event for the terrorist attack, I gave a speech where I talked about my memories of the youngest victim of 15 March, Mucaad, who was three years old. Remembering those details really affected me. I was so upset. He was such a little boy.<\/p>\n<p>I thought so much about the children and teenagers who were hurt and killed. I\u2019m the father of two boys, so I put myself in those parents\u2019 shoes and tried to understand how much worse they must feel than me. I can\u2019t compare my pain to theirs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/commentisfree\/2022\/mar\/13\/i-was-shot-nine-times-in-the-christchurch-massacre-now-im-reclaiming-the-gunmans-journey\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking the shooter\u2019s route from Dunedin to Christchurch I\u2019ve realised I don\u2019t have to be scared any moreLast year at the memorial event for the terrorist attack, I gave a speech where I talked about my memories of the youngest victim of 15 March, Muca&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,214,213,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-christchurch","category-christchurch-shooting","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42389,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42388\/revisions\/42389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}