{"id":17472,"date":"2016-06-13T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T23:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17472"},"modified":"2016-06-13T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T23:37:47","slug":"sad-and-horrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17472","title":{"rendered":"Sad and horrified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am saddened and horrified by the mass murder yesterday in Orlando.  49 innocent people dead, and 53 more wounded, because of something that is becoming frighteningly common in the U.S.:  A madman bought a high powered military-style assault rifle and then used it.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could use this space to talk about the NRA, but what would be the point?  The horror of easy access to such high powered weaponry speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday was a terrible tragedy for those poor people and their families.  My heart goes out to them.<\/p>\n<p>And our continuing inability to have a sane conversation about these kinds of weapons is a terrible tragedy for our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am saddened and horrified by the mass murder yesterday in Orlando. 49 innocent people dead, and 53 more wounded, because of something that is becoming frighteningly common in the U.S.: A madman bought a high powered military-style assault rifle and then used it. I suppose I could use this space to talk about the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sad and horrified&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17473,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17472\/revisions\/17473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}