{"id":604617,"date":"2009-11-09T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/?p=123151"},"modified":"2009-11-09T15:40:03","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T20:40:03","slug":"great-seattle-middle-schoolers-are-making-shanks-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/604617","title":{"rendered":"Great, Seattle middle-schoolers are making shanks now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.crunchgear.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Photo-5.jpg?resize=620%2C429\" alt=\"Photo 5\" title=\"Photo 5\" width=\"620\" height=\"429\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-123155\" \/><br \/>\nI just came across this story in the neighborhood newspaper. I can&#8217;t find it anywhere online. What is wrong with our seventh-graders that they are using their DIY skills to make shanks instead of putting together a cool fort or at least a more creative weapon? They couldn&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t know, modify Nerf arrows with metal caps so they hurt when they hit?<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-123151\"><\/span><br \/>\nIf they&#8217;ve got some violence in the system, as many kids do, they need to work it out. Most kids do that through video games these days, yet why do I get the feeling that somewhere in the Seattle school district tonight, somebody will be cursing the same games for making kids more violent?<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, no one was hurt in this incident. The kids involved were expelled, but beyond that nothing is known. I think that going to an inner-city high school and being held up at gunpoint a couple times has made me a more well-rounded person all told, but I wouldn&#8217;t wish a shank on anyone.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/tXDsvHBDNyvibu3HfcZIlaEVo20\/0\/da\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/tXDsvHBDNyvibu3HfcZIlaEVo20\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/tXDsvHBDNyvibu3HfcZIlaEVo20\/1\/da\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/tXDsvHBDNyvibu3HfcZIlaEVo20\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=z-hMr1dD5RA:bYJSUKxYa_o:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=z-hMr1dD5RA:bYJSUKxYa_o:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=z-hMr1dD5RA:bYJSUKxYa_o:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?i=z-hMr1dD5RA:bYJSUKxYa_o:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?a=z-hMr1dD5RA:bYJSUKxYa_o:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/crunchgear?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across this story in the neighborhood newspaper. I can&#8217;t find it anywhere online. What is wrong with our seventh-graders that they are using their DIY skills to make shanks instead of putting together a cool fort or at least a more creative weapon? They couldn&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t know, modify Nerf arrows with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xhT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}