{"id":2105,"date":"2006-10-03T10:08:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T14:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/10\/reminder_from_a\/"},"modified":"2006-10-03T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T14:08:28","slug":"reminder_from_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/reminder_from_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder From Amish School Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I generally don&#8217;t try to read too much into events such as <a title=\"A father of three, a killer of schoolgirls\" href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/15664055.htm\">yesterday&#8217;s killings at an Amish school<\/a>.  But one point here is obvious: if a &#8220;Christian&#8221; father of three can walk into an Amish school and kill several students, &#8220;senseless&#8221; tragedy can occur <em>anywhere<\/em>.<br \/>\nI sometimes see bad stories on the news and think, &#8220;Good thing stuff like that doesn&#8217;t happen around here.&#8221;  It&#8217;s true it&#8217;s highly unlikely I will ever witness a tragedy like that.  But there&#8217;s certainly nothing inherent to shield me from it.  No one is completely safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/reminder_from_a\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Reminder From Amish School Killings\"><p>I generally don&#8217;t try to read too much into events such as yesterday&#8217;s killings at an Amish school. But one point here is obvious: if a &#8220;Christian&#8221; father of three can walk into an Amish school and kill several students, &#8220;senseless&#8221; tragedy can occur anywhere. I sometimes see bad stories on the news and think, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}