{"id":29723,"date":"2025-01-05T12:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T12:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/an-ivy-league-football-player-a-cook-a-mother-the-victims-of-the-new-years-day-attack-in-new-orleans\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T12:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T12:58:15","slug":"an-ivy-league-football-player-a-cook-a-mother-the-victims-of-the-new-years-day-attack-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/an-ivy-league-football-player-a-cook-a-mother-the-victims-of-the-new-years-day-attack-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ivy League football player, a cook, a mother: the victims of the New Year\u2019s Day attack in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who died on Bourbon Street had gathered to celebrate the new year and were locals, tourists, students and parents<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/03\/new-orleans-attack-victims\">University students.<\/a> Parents and other people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/01\/new-orleans-vehicle-attack-victims\">pursuing<\/a> careers. A former college football player whose little brother made a name for himself in the sport, too. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jan\/04\/british-man-from-chelsea-edward-pettifer-among-14-killed-in-new-orleans-truck-attack\">Briton<\/a> whose stepmother had been a nanny of Princes Harry and William.<\/p>\n<p>All had gathered on the most famous street in one of the world\u2019s most festive cities to celebrate New Year\u2019s Day. All were murdered when a US army veteran flying a flag of the Islamic State (IS) terror group drove a pickup truck around a makeshift police blockade and into a crowd on New Orleans\u2019s Bourbon Street in the early morning of 1 January 2025, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more before authorities shot him to death during a gun battle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/05\/victims-new-orleans-new-year-day-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who died on Bourbon Street had gathered to celebrate the new year and were locals, tourists, students and parents University students. Parents and other people pursuing careers. A former college football player whose little brother made a name for himself in the sport, too. A Briton whose stepmother had been a nanny of Princes &#8230; <a title=\"An Ivy League football player, a cook, a mother: the victims of the New Year\u2019s Day attack in New Orleans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/an-ivy-league-football-player-a-cook-a-mother-the-victims-of-the-new-years-day-attack-in-new-orleans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about An Ivy League football player, a cook, a mother: the victims of the New Year\u2019s Day attack in New Orleans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}