{"id":3678,"date":"2015-10-04T13:22:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2015-10-04T13:22:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:22:32","slug":"gideon-litchfield-on-the-gun-control-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/?p=3678","title":{"rendered":"Gideon Lichfield on &#034;The Gun Control Conflict&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the British journalist Dan Hodges observed in June, \u201cIn retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.\u201d<br \/>\nSince that massacre less than three years ago, there have been almost 1,000 shootings in the US at which four or more people were hit, and over 1,200 deaths. The most shocking thing about this week\u2019s killing of nine people in Oregon was its ordinariness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the British journalist Dan Hodges observed in June, \u201cIn retrospect Sandy Hook marked the end of the US gun control debate. Once America decided killing children was bearable, it was over.\u201d Since that massacre less than three years ago, there have been almost 1,000 shootings in the US at which four or more people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}