{"id":904,"date":"2014-06-10T21:24:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T04:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/?p=904"},"modified":"2014-06-10T21:24:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T04:24:03","slug":"contest-news-items-distress-figure-win-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/contest-news-items-distress-figure-win-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Contest! News items that distress me: figure out why and win a book!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m depressed today. Nothing like giving away something to make me feel better, right? So I&#8217;m going to post links to three stories, all recent. Succinctly tell me why I&#8217;m so upset (beyond the obvious). The closest answer gets a hard copy of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/18-9780316250818-42\">California <\/a>on publication, July 8.<\/p>\n<p>1. The obvious: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/gresham\/index.ssf\/2014\/06\/oregon_school_shooting_reynold.html\">Oregon school shooting. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. The response: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bodyguard-bulletproof-blanket-for-kids-2014-6\">The protection. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. The utterly ridiculous: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/oddnews\/first-grader-suspended-and-facing-expulsion-after-finding-toy-gun-in-backpack-and-even-turning-himself-in-203058288.html\">The real danger exposed! <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you need some help, I suggest you go read the exemplary post by Pam Mandel at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/10\/explaining-american-gun-violence-foreign-friends-family\/\">Nerd&#8217;s Eye View<\/a>. It won&#8217;t give you the answer I&#8217;m looking for, but it might start you on the right path.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll put an answer and a winner (if any) in an addendum at the bottom of this post on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m depressed today. Nothing like giving away something to make me feel better, right? So I&#8217;m going to post links to three stories, all recent. Succinctly tell me why I&#8217;m so upset (beyond the obvious). The closest answer gets a hard copy of the book California on publication, July 8. 1. The obvious: Oregon school&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,532,218,413,220,616],"tags":[643,512,689,690,793],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-are-you-serious","category-blogathon","category-criminals","category-current-affairs","category-gun-violence","category-life-and-death","tag-freelance-success","tag-nerds-eye-view","tag-pam-mandel","tag-reynolds-high-school","tag-wordcount-blogathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/landguppy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}