{"id":19907,"date":"2016-06-13T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T09:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19907"},"modified":"2016-06-13T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T09:37:59","slug":"president-barack-obama-reacts-to-the-killings-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19907","title":{"rendered":"President Barack Obama reacts to the killings in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the 15th time in his occupancy of the White House, President Barack Obama has made a statement on a mass shooting and this time the massacre in Orlando is the worst incident of its kind in US history. What can he say that he hasn&#8217;t said before? What can he do that he hasn&#8217;t already tried to do?<\/p>\n<p>No wonder that he sounded full of resignation and despair and sadness. The key part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/jun\/12\/orlando-terror-attack-50-killed-nightclub-deadliest-mass-shooting\">his statement<\/a> is surely this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that allows them to shoot people at a school, or a movie theater, or a church or a nightclub.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis could have been any one of our communities &#8230; We have to decide whether that\u2019s the kind of country we want to be. To actively do nothing is a decision as well.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 15th time in his occupancy of the White House, President Barack Obama has made a statement on a mass shooting and this time the massacre in Orlando is the worst incident of its kind in US history. What can he say that he hasn&#8217;t said before? What can he do that he hasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19910,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19907\/revisions\/19910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}