{"id":973,"date":"2013-01-02T15:20:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/01\/02\/the-menace-of-violence-in-america\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T03:10:57","slug":"the-menace-of-violence-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-menace-of-violence-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The menace of violence in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The school shootings in Sandy Hook, Conn., occurred in a community that was \u201cnot the kind of place something like this can happen.\u201d But, according to Furman communication studies professor Sean O\u2019Rourke, it is becoming increasingly apparent there is no place in the United States where something like this cannot happen. In an op-ed for <em>The Greenville News<\/em>, O\u2019Rourke writes that unless we remove the thread of violence from the fabric of our national life, we will be collectively responsible for the tragic deaths still to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school shootings in Sandy Hook, Conn., occurred in a community that was \u201cnot the kind of place something like this can happen.\u201d But, according to Furman communication studies professor Sean O\u2019Rourke, it is becoming increasingly apparent there is no place in the United States where something like this cannot happen. In an op-ed for\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>, O\u2019Rourke writes that unless we remove the thread of violence from the fabric of our national life, we will be collectively responsible for the tragic deaths still to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-communication-studies","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}