{"id":23,"date":"2007-04-17T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-04-17T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T11:07:00","slug":"vti-shooting-brings-back-bad-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"VTI Shooting brings back bad memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ExternalClass3E630442453C40FB885E46C5CAD13C30\">\n<div>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t really planning for this to be the second post on my new Blog, but the events at Virginia Technical Institute bring back too many bad memories.&#160; My prayers go out to the family and friends of the students and faculty at VTI.&#160; I know a little of what they are going through.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>In May, 2003 I went through a similar attack while a professor in the Business school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH.&#160; Compared to VTI we were relatively lucky, only one student was killed and two people injured, but we certainly didn&#8217;t feel lucky at the time.&#160; Three PhD students and I were trapped in my office on the 5th floor of the building from the time the shooting started at 4:00 PM until SWAT rescued us at 12:30 AM the next morning.&#160; At one point while trying to FAX a phone list for the building to the local police I came face to face with the gunman.&#160; It was a terrifying experience.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC has a good report of the attack at Case Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15767366\/\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15767366\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>including some of my testimony at the gunman&#8217;s trial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15787964\/\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/15787964\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t really planning for this to be the second post on my new Blog, but the events at Virginia Technical Institute bring back too many bad memories.&#160; My prayers go out to the family and friends of the students and faculty at VTI.&#160; I know a little of what they are going through.&#160; In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=23\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VTI Shooting brings back bad memories<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}