{"id":3246,"date":"2012-07-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com\/?p=3246"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:16:58","slug":"bullshot-jeff-kass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-jeff-kass\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Jeff Kass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>BULL:<\/strong>\u00a0As an English teacher, what would you say has changed (or not changed) about fisticuffs in public high schools?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>JK:<\/strong>\u00a0As far as fist-fighting in schools, I actually don&#8217;t see very much of that anymore. Perhaps that&#8217;s because schools are pretty heavily patrolled now by police officers with guns and tasers. Perhaps that&#8217;s because the present generation of students is smarter than previous ones, less violent. However, when violence does occur, one thing which seems disturbing is what looks like a willingness to pile on. If somebody&#8217;s getting beat up, not only do on-lookers fail to do anything to stop the beating, but it sometimes looks like people get excited by somebody on the ground and jump in, kicking at the person who&#8217;s already down. It&#8217;s almost as if any dude who gets his ass beat deserves even more scorn, more of a beating. In his weakness, he&#8217;s also become contemptible. That feels scary to me.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Mess&#8221;\u2014and an English teacher in the trenches\u2014gives us a first-hand look at the current state of high school violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[89,12],"class_list":["post-3246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-high-school","tag-violence","writer-tim-chilcote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17684,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3246\/revisions\/17684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}