{"id":2045,"date":"2005-04-21T20:53:59","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T00:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2005-04-21T20:55:27","modified_gmt":"2005-04-22T00:55:27","slug":"guns-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/21\/guns-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"guns suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone shot and very nearly killed the son of a friend of mine. Only after extremely complex surgery at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stmichaelshospital.com\/\">St Mike&#8217;s<\/a> does it look like he&#8217;ll pull through. Get well soon, Andrew; you&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/pkto.ca\/\">parkouring<\/a> again before long. His family&#8217;s requesting donations to the anti-arms-trade <a href=\"http:\/\/ploughshares.ca\/\">Project Ploughshares<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s strange, but in Glasgow&nbsp;&mdash; a city with an exceptionally violent reputation&nbsp;&mdash; anyone who carries a gun is seen as either a coward or mental. Gun violence in North America isn&#8217;t doing anything to change my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone shot and very nearly killed the son of a friend of mine. Only after extremely complex surgery at St Mike&#8217;s does it look like he&#8217;ll pull through. Get well soon, Andrew; you&#8217;ll be parkouring again before long. His family&#8217;s requesting donations to the anti-arms-trade Project Ploughshares. It&#8217;s strange, but in Glasgow&nbsp;&mdash; a city with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1956,43],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-gun","tag-toronto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-wZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}