{"id":439,"date":"2020-05-16T06:29:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T06:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.camcobra.com\/home\/?p=439"},"modified":"2025-06-01T03:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T03:21:02","slug":"another-kensington-tragedy-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/2020\/05\/another-kensington-tragedy-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"(Another) Kensington tragedy in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Originally published March 14, 2013<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First thing in my view this morning: 25-year-old man found shot dead at F Street and Allegheny Avenue. Nothing particularly stirring about this news, since homicide is Philly&#8217;s living legacy, pardon the irony. No, what stands out for me is that only a few months ago, I still lived there and probably faced a similar death every day. Only the mercy of God keeps and protects me, as I still travel through the old neighborhood to and from work every day. I&#8217;m saddened by the tragedy and outraged at the senseless violence. I know the answer, and there aren&#8217;t many who want to hear it. Because the truth hurts. And everything else kills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published March 14, 2013 First thing in my view this morning: 25-year-old man found shot dead at F Street and Allegheny Avenue. Nothing particularly stirring about this news, since homicide is Philly&#8217;s living legacy, pardon the irony. No, what stands out for me is that only a few months ago, I still lived there&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reclaimed"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/camcobra.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}