Earlier this morning, I arrived at the local cineplex to catch the latest and final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman saga. \u00a0I was worried about two things: staying awake and not getting asked to leave due to alcohol-fueled tomfoolery. \u00a0It never occurred to me that going to see this film could be the last thing I ever did on this Earth. \u00a0I’m sure it never occurred to anyone in Aurora, CO either.<\/p>\n
I’m sure you’ve heard the story by now. \u00a0A masked and heavily armed gunman opened fire on an unsuspecting crowd last night during the midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises<\/em>. \u00a012 people are dead. \u00a0Dozens more were wounded. \u00a0A lunatic, who may have dyed his hair to resemble the Joker’s from the previous film and did booby-trap his apartment, is in police custody. \u00a0And a nation is left to ask the same question we always ask in this situation: why?<\/p>\n As of yet, there are no answers as to why. \u00a0Is there an answer that would satisfy us? \u00a0Can there be an explanation that would explain why a doctoral student who had no previous run-ins with the law decided to execute people for going to see a movie? \u00a0Sadly, I think we all know the answer is no. \u00a0We will never get a logical explanation for an act that was so illogical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier this morning, I arrived at the local cineplex to catch the latest and final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman saga. \u00a0I was worried about two things: staying awake and not getting asked to leave due to alcohol-fueled tomfoolery. \u00a0It never occurred to me that going to see this film could be the last thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2431,1797,1795,2430],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkeytalk","tag-aurora-co","tag-batman","tag-christopher-nolan","tag-the-dark-knight-rises"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2179,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}