{"id":407,"date":"2015-08-27T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T15:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/?p=407"},"modified":"2015-08-27T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T15:19:43","slug":"alison-parker-and-adam-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Alison Parker and Adam Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a moment to set aside politics in memory of WDBJ-TV&#8217;s reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward who were murdered yesterday during a live TV broadcast on the Roanoke, Virginia&#8217;s station. The murderer has been described as a disgruntled former WDBJ reporter who was terminated 2 years ago. \u00a0He had displayed erratic behavior all of his career. \u00a0You can imagine that the anger festered and with no human reality testing, he plotted to kill. \u00a0This avenging murder was done on live TV while the murderer created his own video which he later downloaded to Facebook and Twitter (now deleted). \u00a0Then he ran and eventually performed the cowardly act of killing himself. \u00a0I guess one could try and understand<a href=\"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/virginia_shooting__3419685b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-406\" src=\"http:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/virginia_shooting__3419685b-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"virginia_shooting__3419685b\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/virginia_shooting__3419685b-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/virginia_shooting__3419685b.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>. \u00a0But it&#8217;s too late for Alison and Adam. \u00a0Why does this pattern continue? \u00a0We can&#8217;t forget these events. \u00a0I think sometimes that because it seems to be such a regular occurrence, we have pushed the horror of it all into the basements of our brains. \u00a0Something needs to be done. \u00a0It&#8217;s more than gun control. \u00a0How do we identify these murderers before the carnage? \u00a0As a society, we are responsible for solving this horrible problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a moment to set aside politics in memory of WDBJ-TV&#8217;s reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward who were murdered yesterday during a live TV broadcast on the Roanoke, Virginia&#8217;s station. The murderer has been described as a disgruntled former WDBJ reporter who was terminated 2 years ago. \u00a0He had displayed erratic behavior all of his career. \u00a0You can imagine that the anger festered and with no human reality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmpcdc"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":0,"today_views":0},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manassascitydemocrats.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}