{"id":23243,"date":"2024-10-10T21:20:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23243"},"modified":"2024-10-10T21:20:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T21:20:52","slug":"a-shocking-connection-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23243","title":{"rendered":"A Shocking Connection."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Shocking Connection, A SHOCKING CONNECTION When I was in high school myself, a few years before the Columbine shootings, I did not myself go to Columbine, but had several friends who did. I was an eager young driver enjoying having just gotten my license, and was happy to give them and, if necessary, their acquaintances a ride home. A few times, a boy named Eric bummed a ride off me. He was right on the way, so I didn&#8217;t mind at all. He was a bit reserved\u2026 See more.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"946\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-398-946x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-398-946x1024.png 946w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-398-277x300.png 277w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-398-768x831.png 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-398.png 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 946px) 100vw, 946px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was in high school myself, a few years before the Columbine shootings, I did not myself go to Columbine, but had several friends who did. I was an eager young driver enjoying having just gotten my license, and was happy to give them and, if necessary, their acquaintances a ride home. A few times, a boy named Eric bummed a ride off me. He was right on the way, so I didn&#8217;t mind at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-399.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-399.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-399-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-399-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-399-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a bit reserved at first, but quickly joined into the conversations my friend and I would have about school, and science, and video games. We stopped for food once, though I don&#8217;t recall where. Probably some fast food joint, we were teenage boys, and we ate whatever we could get our hands on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-400.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-400.png 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-400-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/image-400-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After the Columbine shootings, I heard on the radio that the names of the shooters were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, but nothing occurred to me then. Eric is a pretty common name, and he&#8217;d never given his last name. My main concern was to contact my friends and make sure they were alright (thankfully, they all were). It was only later, when I saw the photos of the shooters, that my mind clicked and my jaw dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=23238\" title=\"\">also read&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Shocking Connection, A SHOCKING CONNECTION When I was in high school myself, a few years before the Columbine shootings, I did not myself go to Columbine,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23247,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23243\/revisions\/23247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}