{"id":2846,"date":"2011-01-10T21:19:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2846"},"modified":"2011-01-10T21:19:43","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T21:19:43","slug":"aftermath_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2846","title":{"rendered":"Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have much to add to the conversation regarding Saturday&#8217;s shooting of Representative Giffords and several bystanders, other than to point to Jonathan Cohn&#8217;s post on the role <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tnr.com\/blog\/jonathan-cohn\/81156\/arizona-shooting-mental-health\">mental illness probably played in this tragedy<\/a>. Cohn describes the inadequacies of the public mental health system and how many people cannot access the treatment needed to lead stable lives. Of course, that doesn&#8217;t excuse this terrible crime, but it&#8217;s probably a safe bet that the gunman and his family didn&#8217;t have the means to pay for ongoing psychiatric care. Whether such treatment would have made a difference in the course of events is impossible to say. Sadly, it&#8217;s question that most in the media probably won&#8217;t even bother to ask.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have much to add to the conversation regarding Saturday&#8217;s shooting of Representative Giffords and several bystanders, other than to point to Jonathan Cohn&#8217;s post on the role mental illness probably played in this tragedy. Cohn describes the inadequacies of the public mental health system and how many people cannot access the treatment needed <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2846' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-JU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}