This morning I wrote a blog post.<\/p>\n
There had been an incident at the high school I graduated from on Tuesday — a student took his teacher and classmates hostage with a gun<\/a>. The piece I wrote springboarded off of that, and it was equal parts annoyance, anguish, and anger.<\/p>\n All I needed to add to the blog post were some Twitter embeds, and I figured I could finish that off quickly at the office while drinking my morning tea.<\/p>\n Then I saw that a reporter and cameraman from Roanoke, Virginia, were executed this morning by a disgruntled colleague during a live television remote at Smith Mountain Lake.<\/p>\n Suddenly, what I wanted to say this morning about the events in West Virginia felt wholly inappropriate. Maybe I’ll say it someday. It’s appropriate to the Roanoke tragedy as well.<\/p>\n Words fail me, and what words I do have feel inadequate. What I will say is this.<\/p>\n Love the people in your life, and cherish each day you have. Events of the last forty-eight hours show, as well as anything, that life is full of senseless tragedy. Be kind and caring. Let go of anger and hatred and hurt. And do something tangible<\/i> to make the world a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning I wrote a blog post. There had been an incident at the high school I graduated from on Tuesday — a student took his teacher and classmates hostage with a gun. The piece I wrote springboarded off of that, and it was equal parts annoyance, anguish, and anger. All I needed to addContinue reading “Feelings After a Tragedy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}