{"id":4221,"date":"2009-01-02T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T21:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2009-01-02T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T21:45:01","slug":"carlsbad-couples-exit-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4221","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Couple&#8217;s Exit Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The older we get the less bummed we are by news like this story about <strong>Warren Mingus<\/strong>, 88, and his wife from the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/jan\/02\/bn02couple09288-carlsbad-couple-found-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An elderly couple were found shot dead in their La Costa home Thursday in what appears to the county&#8217;s second murder-suicide case reported on the first day of 2009. . . . When police entered the house on Cannas Court, a short street less than half a mile from the intersection of Aviara Parkway and El Camino Real, just before 5 p.m., they found the bodies of an 88-year-old man and a 90-year-old woman, who had apparently died from bullet wounds, Carlsbad police said. . . An acquaintance of the pair told officers they were both in failing health and were suffering from numerous medical issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We just hope this is something they planned together. Our thoughts are with their families.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/jan\/02\/bn02couple09288-carlsbad-couple-found-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2009\/01\/02\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/z185f223d148c30b588257532005be295.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The older we get the less bummed we are by news like this story about Warren Mingus, 88, and his wife from the San Diego Union-Tribune. An elderly couple were found shot dead in their La Costa home Thursday in what appears to the county&#8217;s second murder-suicide case reported on the first day of 2009. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4223,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}