{"id":150,"date":"2007-04-18T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T00:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=150"},"modified":"2007-04-18T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T00:56:08","slug":"vt-vics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"VT Vics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One the things I&#8217;ve been captivated are the growing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18143312\/\">profiles<\/a> of the VT <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/US\/04\/17\/vtech.shooting.victims\/index.html\">victims<\/a> being posted on the news web sites.  On the one hand, it&#8217;s heart-wrenching to read about these promising lives cut short. One the other hand, everyone should read it, so that these people are not just a statistic.  These were real lives cut short in a moment by a monster.  Real people who had plans and hopes for the future.  Now gone.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the most inspiring story is that of Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor (Yom Ha-Shoah was the day before, ironically) who apparently gave his life to save those of his students.  I never cease to be awed by the simple courage that dwells in so many of us.  I only hope that if, God forbid, I should be in such a situation, I will be as brave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One the things I&#8217;ve been captivated are the growing profiles of the VT victims being posted on the news web sites. On the one hand, it&#8217;s heart-wrenching to read about these promising lives cut short. One the other hand, everyone should read it, so that these people are not just a statistic. These were real &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=150\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VT Vics<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-2q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}