{"id":356215,"date":"2021-11-22T06:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=356215"},"modified":"2021-11-22T06:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T20:05:57","slug":"the-ballad-of-kyle-rittenhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/the-ballad-of-kyle-rittenhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A shooter on dark city streets<br \/>\n17 on the scene with an AR-15<br \/>\nshoots three people he meets<br \/>\nwhy did he bring a gun that day?<br \/>\nuse it on others and walk away<br \/>\nleaving a bloody deadly scene<br \/>\nKyle answered? about the gun<br \/>\nas if he thought it a toy for fun<br \/>\n&#8220;I thought it was cool.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When he was 17 he bought an AR-15<br \/>\nand took that high-tech gun downtown<br \/>\nsubsequently\u00a0mowed three people down<br \/>\nhe says out of self-defense and fear<br \/>\nfound not guilty after turning eighteen<br \/>\ncried like a baby twice during the trial<br \/>\nhe had been successful for two years<br \/>\nfamilies of the dead men did not smile<br \/>\nthey continue lifelong sorrow and tears.<\/p>\n<p>*Teen shooter found not guilty\u00a0in Kenosha, Wisconsin trial<\/p>\n<p>***<br \/>\n<em>Joey aka Pepe Batbon Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is a sonnet practitioner who enjoys stargazing.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A shooter on dark city streets 17 on the scene with an AR-15 shoots three&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":355846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,23672,23673],"class_list":["post-356215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cnmi","tag-lvnv","tag-nola"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}