{"id":5195,"date":"2014-04-03T03:57:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T03:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5195"},"modified":"2014-04-03T03:57:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T03:57:16","slug":"fort-hood-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5195","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hood &#8230; again"},"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>Violence has erupted at Fort Hood yet again.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s early in the aftermath of the latest shooting rampage at the sprawling Army post in Central Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Four people &#8212; including the gunman &#8212; are dead and many others are injured.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Iraq Veteran at Fort Hood Kills 3 and Himself in Rampage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2014%2F04%2F03%2Fus%2Fgunshots-reported-at-fort-hood.html#?secret=qdd7g4r1JX\" data-secret=\"qdd7g4r1JX\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was less than five years ago that Army Major Nadal Hasan opened fire on his fellow soldiers while protesting the Pentagon&#8217;s war policies in Afghanistan. Hasan, a psychiatrist and a devout Muslim, had been ordered to Afghanistan; he wouldn&#8217;t go, so he embarked on a senseless rampage. An Army court martial convicted him and sentenced him to death.<\/p>\n<p>Now this event.<\/p>\n<p>The nation&#8217;s heart breaks once again at this senseless shooting. President Obama vows to get to the bottom of what transpired. Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey said the Pentagon&#8217;s main focus right now is to support the families of those who were killed or wounded.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the simplest of questions arises from this tragic act. Why?<\/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>Violence has erupted at Fort Hood yet again. It&#8217;s early in the aftermath of the latest shooting rampage at the sprawling Army post in Central Texas. Four people &#8212; including the gunman &#8212; are dead and many others are injured. It was less than five years ago that Army Major Nadal Hasan opened fire on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5195\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fort Hood &#8230; again<\/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":[1],"tags":[168,1771,2037,3309],"class_list":["post-5195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afghanistan","tag-fort-hood","tag-gun-violence","tag-nidal-hasan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195","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=5195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}