{"id":70387,"date":"2018-04-20T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70387"},"modified":"2018-04-21T18:18:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T22:18:47","slug":"april-is-a-cruel-month-for-this-columbine-teacher-and-survivor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70387","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) April Is A Cruel Month For This Columbine Teacher And Survivor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 20 is the anniversary of the Columbine massacre. That day in 1999, two Littleton, Colo., high school students killed 12 students and one teacher before killing themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Reed was a teacher at Columbine High School school that day, and still is today. This week, she spoke to NPR from the same classroom she was teaching in before everything happened.<\/p>\n<p>On April 20, 1999, she evacuated with her students as the fire alarm went off, a &#8220;Pavlovian&#8221; response, she says, to what they thought was a drill or a student playing a prank.<\/p>\n<p>Reed remembers walking out into the sunshine of a beautiful day when kids ran by yelling, &#8220;They&#8217;ve got guns, they&#8217;ve got guns!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2018\/04\/20\/602346613\/april-is-a-cruel-month-for-this-columbine-teacher-and-survivor\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Paula Reed remembers walking out into the sunshine of a beautiful day when kids ran by yelling, &quot;they&#39;ve got guns.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j4rXcdtgPC\">https:\/\/t.co\/j4rXcdtgPC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WBUR (@WBUR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WBUR\/status\/987277195755188224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 20 is the anniversary of the Columbine massacre. That day in 1999, two Littleton, Colo., high school students killed 12 students and one teacher before killing themselves. Reed was a teacher at Columbine High School school that day, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70387\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,101,438,111,133,98,110,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-death-burial-funerals","category-education","category-history","category-marriage-family","category-teens-youth","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70413,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70387\/revisions\/70413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}