{"id":3219,"date":"2023-01-24T02:17:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T09:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2024-04-22T02:46:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T02:46:04","slug":"america-is-a-gun-by-brian-bilston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/2023\/01\/24\/america-is-a-gun-by-brian-bilston\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;America is a Gun&#8221; by Brian Bilston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/gun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The picture above was made by perceptual artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perceptualart.com\/\">Michael Murphy<\/a>. If you <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/247183084\">watch this video<\/a>, the camera pans to the side of the &#8220;United States&#8221; to reveal a large gun. It was made in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Bilston <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brian_bilston\/status\/700011838415704064\">shared his poem<\/a> on Twitter at 10:40 a.m., on February 17, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/america-is-a-gun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/america-is-a-gun.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I get up today, America has endured its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/23\/politics\/mass-shootings-in-2023-what-matters\/index.html\">38th mass shooting<\/a> of 2023. We are only 23 days into the year.<\/p>\n<p>No other country has this problem. No other country worships guns. What will it take for people realize this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[170,230],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-guns","tag-mass-shooting"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3546,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/3546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenenorth.com\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}