{"id":39392,"date":"2019-10-22T00:35:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T00:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39392"},"modified":"2019-10-22T00:35:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T00:35:22","slug":"this-story-ended-in-astonishing-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39392","title":{"rendered":"This story ended in astonishing fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23KeanonLowe%20%23ParkroseHS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lCHhOMZZlpY<\/p>\n<p>Keanon Lowe should become the embodiment of compassion and courage all rolled up in one extraordinary human being.<\/p>\n<p>The video I have included with this blog post was recorded at Parkrose High School, in Portland, Ore. I graduated from Parkrose High School in 1967, which gives this story a significant bit of special poignance for me.<\/p>\n<p>Keanon Lowe is a football coach at the high school and he is the gentleman who took a loaded shotgun out of the hands of a student. What he did next has captured the nation&#8217;s collective heart. He grabbed the student and embraced him. He hugged him tightly until the police arrived to take the student into custody.<\/p>\n<p>I have never seen anything quite like this. I am guessing none of us ever has seen an educator demonstrate the presence of mind that Lowe did in that moment, preventing a potentially devastating tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe once played football for the University of Oregon. The Parkrose School District hired him after he graduated from the U of O. So help me, I cannot fathom how this man summoned the instinct to do what he did.<\/p>\n<p>As for the student, he is serving a three-year probation sentence. I pray the young man gets the help he needs so desperately.<\/p>\n<p>The educator, Keanon Lowe? He is a hero in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=gunviolence%20%23KeanonLowe%20%23ParkroseHS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lCHhOMZZlpY Keanon Lowe should become the embodiment of compassion and courage all rolled up in one extraordinary human being. The video I have included with this blog post was recorded at Parkrose High School, in Portland, Ore. I graduated from Parkrose High School in 1967, which gives this story a significant bit of special poignance &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39392\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This story ended in astonishing fashion<\/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":[13],"tags":[2037,8997,3500],"class_list":["post-39392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-keanon-lowe","tag-parkrose-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39392","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=39392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39393,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39392\/revisions\/39393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}