{"id":4039,"date":"2016-06-14T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T12:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2016-06-14T08:03:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T12:03:38","slug":"orlando-shooter-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4039","title":{"rendered":"Orlando shooter: Gay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Omar Mateen was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-orlando-nightclub-shooting-20160613-snap-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">a regular visitor<\/a> to Pulse.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The gunman who attacked a Florida LGBT nightclub had attended the club before the attack and had used a gay dating and chat app, witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin West, a regular at Pulse nightclub, said Omar Mateen messaged him on and off for a year before the shooting using the gay chat and dating app Jack\u2019d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <i>Associated Press<\/i> has an on-camera interview with somebody who knew him.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xsuFNEvWOrE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Well.  This adds a layer to the story, don&#8217;t you think?  If this was a guy who couldn&#8217;t muster-up the nerve to come out, it turns the massacre into a convoluted story about trying to kill the sin he desperately wanted but couldn&#8217;t have.  &#8220;Get thee behind me, Satan&#8221;, and all that.  Assuming this angle pans out, he doesn&#8217;t look malevolent so much as a weakling crushed by the fist of ignorant superstitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Omar Mateen was a regular visitor to Pulse. The gunman who attacked a Florida LGBT nightclub had attended the club before the attack and had used a gay dating and chat app, witnesses said. Kevin West, a regular at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4039\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4041,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}