31 people (give or take) died in Blacksburg, VA today, at the hands of a gunman who rampaged through a dormitory. 31 students at Virginia Tech died.<\/p>\n
If you have friends or loved ones there, please call them to be sure that they’re okay. If your friends and loved ones were among those killed or wounded, I have no words to express how much my heart goes out to you.<\/p>\n
I’ve stared at my keyboard for five minutes trying to find a decent way to point out that this is something like an *average* day in Iraq … but there is no decent way to do so. It’s only when our calm is shattered that we realize how very calm we were.<\/p>\n
Will this wretched winter never end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
31 people (give or take) died in Blacksburg, VA today, at the hands of a gunman who rampaged through a dormitory. 31 students at Virginia Tech died.<\/p>\n
If you have friends or loved ones there, please call them to be sure that they’re okay. If your friends and loved ones were among those killed or . . . → Read More: Virginia Tech Shooting<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}