{"id":5419,"date":"2019-09-18T15:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2019-09-18T15:20:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:20:36","slug":"so-hard-to-watch-when-will-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/09\/so-hard-to-watch-when-will-things-change\/","title":{"rendered":"So Hard To Watch &#8211; When Will Things Change?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be warned.\u00a0 This is hard to watch.<\/p>\n<p>I thought twice about sharing it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a new anti-gun violence PSA from the anti-gun violence advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s being called &#8220;chilling&#8221; and &#8220;powerful&#8221;.\u00a0 It features children using common back-to-school items for self-defense during a school shooting.<\/p>\n<p>How sad that this is needed in the world today?<\/p>\n<p>How sad that this is a new reality for kids.\u00a0 Thankfully, not our kids. It seems we live in a safer world in this country. I&#8217;m thankful for that.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this situation isn&#8217;t effecting us right now, but when will it stop?<\/p>\n<p>Why should any child go to school in fear?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what the answer is other than please take away those guns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b5ykNZl9mTQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Be warned.\u00a0 This is hard to watch. I thought twice about sharing it.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a new anti-gun violence PSA from the anti-gun violence advocacy group Sandy Hook Promise. It&#8217;s being called &#8220;chilling&#8221; and &#8220;powerful&#8221;.\u00a0 It features children using common back-to-school items for self-defense during a school shooting. How sad that this is needed in the","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":5421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 02:44:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2019\/09\/so-hard-to-watch-when-will-things-change\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5420,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}