{"id":182402,"date":"2015-10-01T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/01\/is-this-even-news\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T21:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T02:12:00","slug":"is-this-even-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/01\/is-this-even-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this Even News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/f9kYV.jpg\" rel=\"lytebox\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/f9kYV.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>I have to use this cartoon <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Way<\/span><\/b> too often<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Another day, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/multiple-fatalities-reported-in-shooting-at-oregon-community-college\/2015\/10\/01\/b9e9cc4c-686c-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html\">another mass shooting in America<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A rural community college became the site of America\u2019s latest mass shooting on Thursday as a lone gunman burst into classrooms during the school day and mowed down terrified students before being shot dead in a firefight with police, authorities said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Officials said nine people were killed, plus the gunman, and seven injured during the traumatic events at Umpqua Community College, about three hours south of Portland.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A U.S. law enforcement official identified the gunman as 26-year-old Chris Harper Mercer of Winchester, Ore. He was described as wearing a dark shirt and jeans while spewing bullets from what appeared to be three pistols and possibly a semiautomatic rifle.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear here:  This is no longer news.<\/p>\n<p>We have a shooting like this, albeit typically on a slightly smaller scale, on an almost daily basis in this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to use this cartoon Way too often Another day, another mass shooting in America: A rural community college became the site of America\u2019s latest mass shooting on Thursday as a lone gunman burst into classrooms during the school day and mowed down terrified students before being shot dead in a firefight with police, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,969,1055,1126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-evil","category-gun-laws","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182402"}],"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=182402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}