{"id":141,"date":"2007-04-17T06:48:18","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=141"},"modified":"2007-04-17T06:58:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T12:58:12","slug":"boortz-on-vt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Boortz on VT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boortz comes out <a href=\"http:\/\/boortz.com\/nuze\/200704\/04172007.html#vatech\">full bore<\/a> on the Virginia Tech tragedy.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m refraining from comment until we know more.  We&#8217;re hearing a lot of speculation and stories.  We can wait a while until we have all the facts.  It turned out that most of what people were saying about Columbine in the immediate aftermath was garbage.  Let&#8217;s take some time to separate the fantasy from the reality.<\/p>\n<p>There is one thing I&#8217;d like to say.  I hope people will spare just tiny amount of prayer for the family of . . . the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>What?!<\/p>\n<p>Listen.  Somewhere in America, some family is about to find out that their brother or son did this horrible horrible thing.  If there&#8217;s anything worse than finding out your child has been killed, it&#8217;s finding out he was a monster.  And they will unquestionably get a lot of the blame &#8212; perhaps some deserved.  Since the shooter is dead, the blame game will be played out in full &#8212; VT Administration, cops, student cliques, the family, whatever you want.  Some will deserve that blame.  All will get it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boortz comes out full bore on the Virginia Tech tragedy. I&#8217;m refraining from comment until we know more. We&#8217;re hearing a lot of speculation and stories. We can wait a while until we have all the facts. It turned out that most of what people were saying about Columbine in the immediate aftermath was garbage. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boortz on VT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-2h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}