{"id":7633,"date":"2018-03-14T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7633"},"modified":"2018-03-14T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:23:41","slug":"tin-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7633","title":{"rendered":"Tin ears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I share with many adults a tendency to feel annoyed when snippy teenagers presume to give me life instruction, and I&#8217;m entitled to feel annoyed; I&#8217;ve seen a lot more, done a lot more, and accomplished a lot more.  But the NRA&#8217;s response to nationwide high school protests against the too-easy proliferation of assault weapons, by the most high-profile victims of those assault weapons, is stupid beyond words.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;ll control my own guns, thank you. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/2A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#2A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NRA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NRA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jqbZzwcWf6\">pic.twitter.com\/jqbZzwcWf6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NRA (@NRA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRA\/status\/973944596563746816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Has it occurred to these morons that there would be no protests if guns were being properly controlled?  Sure doesn&#8217;t look like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I share with many adults a tendency to feel annoyed when snippy teenagers presume to give me life instruction, and I&#8217;m entitled to feel annoyed; I&#8217;ve seen a lot more, done a lot more, and accomplished a lot more. But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7633\">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\/7633"}],"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=7633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}