{"id":3076,"date":"2013-02-06T11:21:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T16:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3076"},"modified":"2013-02-06T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T16:21:50","slug":"as-part-of-lockdown-drill-school-fires-off-blanks-in-the-halls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/as-part-of-lockdown-drill-school-fires-off-blanks-in-the-halls\/","title":{"rendered":"As Part Of Lockdown Drill, School Fires Off Blanks In The Halls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/600-teachers-apply-to-learn-how-to-shoot-a-gun-at-school\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2918\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2918\" alt=\"handgun\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8-300x233.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8-300x233.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8-150x116.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8-400x311.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/c6b1d67066e5ad79b757b42017f8c1b8.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students at a high school in Illinois experienced a uniquely terrifying school shooting drill on Wednesday. Instead of conducting a regular school lockdown, Cary-Grove High School administrators simulated gunfire by shooting off blanks in the hallways while students locked their classroom doors, pulled the curtains, and hid.<\/p>\n<p>The drill, understandably, upset some parents in the area, who received a letter ahead of time telling them what their children would be experiencing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The simulation will take approximately 15-20 minutes, during which time teachers will secure their rooms, draw curtains, and keep their students from traveling throughout the building. Please note that we will be firing blanks in the hallway in an effort to provide our teachers and students some familiarity with the sound of gunfire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2013\/01\/31\/1523091\/guns-lockdown-blanks\/\" target=\"_blank\">As Part Of Lockdown Drill, School Fires Off Blanks In The Halls | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at a high school in Illinois experienced a uniquely terrifying school shooting drill on Wednesday. Instead of conducting a regular school lockdown, Cary-Grove High School administrators simulated gunfire by shooting off blanks in the hallways while students locked their classroom doors, pulled the curtains, and hid. The drill, understandably, upset some parents in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,9],"tags":[1640,1639,81],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3076\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}