{"id":25916,"date":"2017-11-05T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25916"},"modified":"2017-11-05T21:33:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:33:23","slug":"have-we-lost-our-collective-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25916","title":{"rendered":"Have we lost our collective minds?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AAutQ3t.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25917\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AAutQ3t-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AAutQ3t-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/AAutQ3t.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have refrained over many years from lamenting about the state of our national sanity when monstrous acts of evil explode before us.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I am thinking we have flipped. We&#8217;ve become certifiably mad as a nation. Our nation has been gripped by the vise of mourning, grief and tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Another massacre occurred today in Sutherland Springs, a small town east of San Antonio. As I write these few words, I am hearing that at least 20 people are dead and many more are wounded in a shooting at a Baptist Church. The shooter is dead; it&#8217;s not clear whether the cops got him or he offed himself.<\/p>\n<p>My goodness, I am utterly at a loss to explain this.<\/p>\n<p>The litany of massacres has become too gruesome to bear. Newtown, Littleton, Aurora, Orlando, Charleston, Las Vegas and now Sutherland Springs. OK. I&#8217;ve missed some. But you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>These communities now will be identified forever by the tragedy that has befallen them &#8212; and the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, the debate will erupt yet again over the cause of this monstrous act once we learn the identity of the shooter.<\/p>\n<p>I am officially afraid for our nation<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have refrained over many years from lamenting about the state of our national sanity when monstrous acts of evil explode before us. Sadly, I am thinking we have flipped. We&#8217;ve become certifiably mad as a nation. Our nation has been gripped by the vise of mourning, grief and tragedy. Another massacre occurred today in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25916\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have we lost our collective minds?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[2037,7344,7401],"class_list":["post-25916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-newtown","tag-sutherland-springs-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25920,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25916\/revisions\/25920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}