{"id":177905,"date":"2019-05-08T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/08\/the-saddest-thing-that-i-have-heard-in-a-long-time\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T23:42:00","slug":"the-saddest-thing-that-i-have-heard-in-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/08\/the-saddest-thing-that-i-have-heard-in-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saddest Thing that I Have Heard in a Long Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Stem Highlands Range charter school in suburban Denver, CO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coloradoindependent.com\/2019\/05\/07\/stem-highlands-ranch-school-shooting\/\">there was another shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It barely qualifies as news these days, there seems to be a school shooting every week or so.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, this comment by an 8<sup>th<\/sup> grader, Gianni, is positively heart breaking:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Her son, 8th-grader Gianni, chimed in. He talked about the gunshots he heard, about how everyone fell quiet, about how he \u201cjust sat there and prayed.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Gianni said he wasn\u2019t surprised by what happened. He was remarkably composed for a kid just hours removed from such a harrowing scene.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201c<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">I always knew. I live close to Columbine. I always knew this would happen<\/span><\/b>,\u201d he told me. \u201c<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">It\u2019s bound to happen sooner or later.<\/span><\/b>\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>F%$# the NRA.&nbsp; F%$# Wayne LaPierre, F%$# the political cowards who dance to his tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Stem Highlands Range charter school in suburban Denver, CO, there was another shooting. It barely qualifies as news these days, there seems to be a school shooting every week or so. On the other hand, this comment by an 8th grader, Gianni, is positively heart breaking: Her son, 8th-grader Gianni, chimed in. He &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[505,397,364,531,707],"class_list":["post-177905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-disaster","tag-education","tag-evil","tag-gun-laws","tag-sad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}