{"id":68065,"date":"2018-09-25T06:25:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68065"},"modified":"2018-09-25T06:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:25:12","slug":"un-hogged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68065","title":{"rendered":"Un-Hogged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Parkland kid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/cameron-kasky-parkland-survivor-gun-control-debate\/\">realizes he&#8217;s been used<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy whole message is I was propped up as an expert. The whole message was these kids are the real experts,\u201d [Cameron]\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/radio.foxnews.com\/2018\/09\/19\/co-founder-of-march-for-our-lives-cameron-kasky-explains-the-mistakes-hes-made-why-he-left-march-for-our-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kasky told Fox News Radio\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0<em>Benson &amp; Harf<\/em>\u00a0on Wednesday<em>.<\/em>\u00a0\u201cLook, I have some very intelligent friends. Some friends who can intellectually run circles around me, but I\u2019m not the expert in pretty much anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Survivors of the Parkland shooting received wall-to-wall cable-news coverage in its aftermath.\u00a0Kasky gained national notoriety after telling Senator Marco Rubio of Florida that looking at him felt like looking \u201cdown the barrel of an AR-15,\u201d during a town hall weeks after the shooting. Kasky now claims to regret that interaction and says he hopes to meet with Rubio to apologize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kasky is also doing something a lot more adults should:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 17-year-old now plans to start his own podcast,\u00a0<em>Cameron Knows Nothing<\/em>, featuring subject-matter experts as part of his mission to change the way he participates in the public debate surrounding gun control and other politically charged issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Not\u00a0<\/em>tripling down on one&#8217;s ignorance (aka &#8220;Hogging&#8221;) &#8211; if this could become a trend&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-subscribe\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Parkland kid realizes he&#8217;s been used: \u201cMy whole message is I was propped up as an expert. The whole message was these kids are the real experts,\u201d [Cameron]\u00a0Kasky told Fox News Radio\u2019s\u00a0Benson &amp; Harf\u00a0on Wednesday.\u00a0\u201cLook, I have some very intelligent friends. Some friends who can intellectually run circles around me, but I\u2019m not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68066,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68065\/revisions\/68066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}