{"id":467,"date":"2006-09-13T19:51:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T19:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2006\/09\/13\/checking_in\/"},"modified":"2006-09-13T19:51:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T19:51:17","slug":"checking_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/09\/13\/checking_in\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have no words, really, to express the myriad emotions I\/we are experiencing.<br \/>\nI am posting for no other reason than to reassure friends and family who may have only sketchy details of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/\">today&#8217;s events<\/a>. There was a fatal shooting at Dawson College, a Cegep in downtown Montreal. A young man with a gun shot several people; at least 20 are in hospital and one young woman is dead. The shooter is also dead, apparently by a self-inflicted wound.<br \/>\nI have many friends who work at Dawson, and I am worried about the ones I haven&#8217;t heard from. If things had played out differently, I might have been there &#8211; but I chose to teach at Vanier College, instead, and now I am thankful that I made that decision. I suspect many of my colleagues are feeling the same way. It&#8217;s a weird mix of relief, horror and sadness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no words, really, to express the myriad emotions I\/we are experiencing. I am posting for no other reason than to reassure friends and family who may have only sketchy details of today&#8217;s events. There was a fatal shooting at Dawson College, a Cegep in downtown Montreal. A young man with a gun shot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2006\/09\/13\/checking_in\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Checking in&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}