{"id":66337,"date":"2018-03-20T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66337"},"modified":"2018-03-20T07:00:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:00:10","slug":"open-e-to-all-those-spontaneous-high-school-demonstrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66337","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To All Those \u201cSpontaneous\u201d High School Demonstrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear &#8220;spontaneous&#8221; demonstration participants,<\/p>\n<p>I was in high school once. And I remember how little I cared about the opinions of people my parents age.<\/p>\n<p>But I was blessed to of gone to high school at a time when the teacher staff at my school included a fair number of Vietnam, Korea and World War II veterans.<\/p>\n<p>And one of the unmistakable lessons we got, back in my teenage years, was that &#8220;having people pay attention to your opinion is something you earn&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One does not &#8220;earn&#8221; this by appropriating other peoples sorrow; and it&#8217;s more than a little bit ghoulish to try<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apnewsarchive.com\/2018\/A-group-of-Minnesota-students-briefly-shut-down-a-Senate-committee-hearing-by-calling-on-lawmakers-to-pass-stronger-gun-laws\/id-429c8ba1bb5b4dd091d37a88cff14c09\">Bilge like this isn&#8217;t helping<\/a>. You are wrong on every factual point, and I strongly suspect you&#8217;re not smart enough to listen long enough to figure that out.<\/p>\n<p>That is all..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear &#8220;spontaneous&#8221; demonstration participants, I was in high school once. And I remember how little I cared about the opinions of people my parents age. But I was blessed to of gone to high school at a time when the teacher staff at my school included a fair number of Vietnam, Korea and World War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-66337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66341,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66337\/revisions\/66341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}