{"id":182109,"date":"2015-12-15T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/15\/predictably-depressing\/"},"modified":"2015-12-15T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T01:42:00","slug":"predictably-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/12\/15\/predictably-depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictably Depressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/12\/14\/poll-71-believe-mass-shootin.html\">the overwhelming majority of Americans now consider mass shootings to be a regular fact of life<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A new national NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll found that a whopping 71% of Americans surveyed believe the many shootings and other acts of mass violence in we&#8217;ve seen in 2015 are now a permanent part of life in our country.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">That&#8217;s compared with just 21 percent of Americans who think the violence this year &#8212; from Charleston, S.C., and Oregon, to the terrorist shootings in San Bernardino, Calif. &#8212; has been unusual and won&#8217;t happen as often in the future.<\/span>&nbsp; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>America is broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the overwhelming majority of Americans now consider mass shootings to be a regular fact of life: A new national NBC News\/Wall Street Journal poll found that a whopping 71% of Americans surveyed believe the many shootings and other acts of mass violence in we&#8217;ve seen in 2015 are now a permanent part &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1055,1091,1059,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-gun-laws","category-polls","category-violence","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182109"}],"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=182109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}