{"id":522,"date":"2019-08-06T20:49:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T00:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=522"},"modified":"2020-01-01T12:42:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:42:14","slug":"note-from-the-editor-guns-are-a-social-glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/08\/06\/note-from-the-editor-guns-are-a-social-glue\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS! guns are a social glue | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by<\/em><strong><em> Hokis<\/em><\/strong>, Founder &amp; Senior Editor<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the self-soothing white sticky<br \/>we wipe our hands of\u00a0<br \/>only to dry, so we may peel it<br \/>off in one long strip, revealing<br \/>our uniquely ugly palm. Sunday<br \/><br \/>schooled, white washed<br \/>hodgepodged coated strips of<br \/>that morning\u2019s news. Covering the\u00a0<br \/>carbon dioxide-filled whale bowel\u00a0<br \/>blocker so we may be taught \u201cWhere is the Earth\u2019s<br \/>green, and where is her blue?\u201d Cement,<br \/><br \/>made of rubber trees, whipped and putrid.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Such social glues are psychiatric\u00a0<br \/>symptoms of a poor attachment style\u00a0<br \/>to our common Mother\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Earth, and learnt perspectives of power,\u00a0<br \/>permanent and monumental,\u00a0<br \/>normalizing traditions, of what\u00a0<br \/>all the mes &amp; wes did\u00a0<br \/>to all the yous.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a re-post with each mass shooting<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>original 3:16am, August 6, 2019 by<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/08\/04\/mass-shooting-gun-culture-227502\">&#8220;What Both Sides Don&#8217;t Get About American Gun Culture,&#8221; by Austin Sarat and Jonathan Obert, Politico Magazine, August 4, 2019.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h6 class=\"has-small-font-size\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>image:<\/strong> Japanese artist\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/onys.net\/en\/info\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Yasuaki Onishi<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em><em>found in Joe Flaherty&#8217;s <\/em><em>&#8220;These Haunting Sculptures <\/em><em>Are Made From Thousands <\/em><em>of Hot Glue Sticks,&#8221; <\/em><br \/><br \/><em>WIRED, October 25, 2013.<\/em><br \/><br \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/><br \/><br \/><\/h6>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A shooting at a church in White Settlement, Texas has left at least 2 people dead and 1 person critically wounded, authorities said&#8221; NYT, December 29, 2019 3:45pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35,15,167],"tags":[28,21],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-editorial","category-gun-violence","tag-gun-violence","tag-hokis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/onishi-07.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/3868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}