{"id":11033,"date":"2007-04-20T19:53:46","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T02:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/20\/whos-to-blame.html"},"modified":"2007-04-20T19:53:46","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T02:53:46","slug":"whos_to_blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/whos_to_blame.html","title":{"rendered":"Who’s to blame?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone has been collecting a list of everyone being blamed for the Virginia Tech shootings<\/a> in various corners of the punditocracy.  All the usual suspects, plus some … even stranger ones.  Up to 47 at last count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Someone has been collecting a list of everyone being blamed for the Virginia Tech shootings in various corners of the punditocracy.  All the usual suspects, plus some … even stranger…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11067,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/words_of_wisdom_6.html","url_meta":{"origin":11033,"position":0},"title":"Words of wisdom","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Apr-07 4:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"DOF lays out some pearls of wisdom on the Virginia Tech shootings\u00a0and what we should do about it (hint: it doesn't involve anything like We! 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