{"id":1014,"date":"2007-04-17T10:54:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T10:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2007-04-17T10:54:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T10:54:04","slug":"virginia_tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1014","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really can&#8217;t bring myself to write much about the shootings in Blacksburg, VA &#8211; at  Virginia Tech.<br \/>\nWhile working with students in Chi Alpha at Kent State, I went down to Virginia Tech a few times for Spring Break outreach.  This was years ago, but the connection is still present.<br \/>\nAfter all my years working with students, I find this kind of happening so terribly troubling.  For Virginia Tech, this will be their Kent State.  I know how the shootings at Kent so many years ago remains in the very place of Kent.  It will remain in and through and at Virginia for its continued history.<br \/>\nWhat can be said?  Just pray for those who have died, for their family and friends, for the family of the shooter, and for the community of Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really can&#8217;t bring myself to write much about the shootings in Blacksburg, VA &#8211; at Virginia Tech. While working with students in Chi Alpha at Kent State, I went down to Virginia Tech a few times for Spring Break &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1014\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicsculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}