{"id":8056,"date":"2013-10-30T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8056"},"modified":"2013-10-29T22:56:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T02:56:44","slug":"our-knee-jerk-reaction-that-would-be-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/30\/our-knee-jerk-reaction-that-would-be-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Our &#8220;knee-jerk reaction that would be wrong&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8221;re glad to give the Register &amp; Bee&#8217;s editorial board something to write about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godanriver.com\/opinion\/editorials\/article_20ebabea-3dbd-11e3-a297-0019bb30f31a.html\" target=\"_blank\">How can we stop the violence?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Since we&#8217;re the only media source that has &#8220;ridiculed&#8221; this event, we can only assume that they&#8217;re talking about us. Good. Somebody had to say it.<\/p>\n<p>Since the R&amp;B will &#8220;welcome anything and everything&#8221; to stop the killing, perhaps they&#8217;ll actually address the same issue that I brought up in the original article (and commented about in their editorial)&#8230; directly confront the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Snitch&#8221; mentality that is pervasive in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Nah. That&#8217;ll never happen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8221;re glad to give the Register &amp; Bee&#8217;s editorial board something to write about&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"Our \"knee-jerk reaction that would be wrong\" - New SouthsideCentral article at http:\/\/bit.ly\/HrplOH","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,17,20,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danville","category-mediacentral","category-newscentral","category-opinioncentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-25W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6135,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/08\/rb-editorial-takes-a-questionable-shot-at-outgoing-jim-dooley\/","url_meta":{"origin":8056,"position":0},"title":"R&#038;B editorial takes a questionable shot at outgoing Jim Dooley.","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"January 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"They've been called out on it by another reader, so let's take a look at it. 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