{"id":23880,"date":"2025-09-11T05:57:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/?p=23880"},"modified":"2025-09-11T05:57:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:57:58","slug":"23880","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/?p=23880","title":{"rendered":"Just Another Day in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Thea Later Mann doesn&#8217;t allow sharing on her Facebook posts, I copied and pasted what she said about the latest shooting because it is so very much in need of being shared far and wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I posted this on a friend&#8217;s page and want it to rest here, too.<br \/>I am not sad he is gone, a gentler euphemism that maybe soothes my guilt over not feeling sad that he has died.<br \/>I am angry at the manner of his death.<br \/>I am angry that, for the majority of my career, I have had to herd children into sheltering positions or practice escape because we can&#8217;t figure out how to reduce gun violence.<br \/>And it happened again.<br \/>And it will happen again.<br \/>I am angry that it happens so frequently I caught myself sighing &#8211;SIGHING &#8212; because it happened again. &#8220;Just another day in America&#8221;.<br \/>I am angry because my students walk through weapons detectors that feel performative, not preventative.<br \/>I am angry<br \/>I am angry<br \/>I am so very tired of being angry.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Thea Later Mann doesn&#8217;t allow sharing on her Facebook posts, I copied and pasted what she said about the latest shooting because it is so very much in need of being shared far and wide. I posted this on a friend&#8217;s page and want it to rest here, too.I am not sad he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":4372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,34],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-23880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-gun-control","tag-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s74d9M-23880","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guyandrewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/whattodowiththetime.jpg?fit=960%2C960&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23880"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23884,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23880\/revisions\/23884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}