{"id":9493,"date":"2025-09-10T21:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=9493"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:16:40","slug":"another-dead-american-this-time-in-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/another-dead-american-this-time-in-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Dead American: This Time in Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here we go again. Another politically active American dead: killed, this time, while answering questions on a college campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/charlie-kirk-conservative-activist-shot-546165a8151104e0938a5e085be1e8bd\">Conservative activist Charlie Kirk dies after being shot at Utah college event<\/a>&#8221; <br>Hannah Schoenbaum, Alanna Durkin Richer, Mark Sherman; AP (September 10, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My wife tells me he&#8217;s left behind a wife and <s>five children<\/s>. [update Sept. 10, 2025 9:15 p.m. Central: seems it&#8217;s wife and two children, don&#8217;t know where the other number originated. Either way \u2014] Those folks are hurting today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No pressure, and I realize that there&#8217;s more to life than prayer: but putting in a word or two on those folks&#8217; behalf couldn&#8217;t hurt. I&#8217;ll be doing that myself in a few minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is &#8220;current events&#8221;, but I&#8217;m putting the &#8220;history&#8221; tag on this post, since I consider what&#8217;s happening as history that&#8217;s in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not looking forward to the usual sound and fury in my news feed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There may be more to say about the latest high-profile murder in my country, but most of what matters in how I see it \u2014 well, I talked about it a couple months back:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/attack-on-lawmakers-politics-life-and-making-sense-anyway\/\">Attack on Lawmakers: Politics, Life, and Making Sense Anyway<\/a>&#8221; <br>(June 21, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go again. Another politically active American dead: killed, this time, while answering questions on a college campus. My wife tells me he&#8217;s left behind a wife and five children. [update Sept. 10, 2025 9:15 p.m. Central: seems it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/another-dead-american-this-time-in-utah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"My off-the-cuff and brief reaction to learning that Charlie Kirk, a politically active American, has been killed.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Another Dead American: This Time in Utah","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[16,27,91],"class_list":["post-9493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","tag-america","tag-history","tag-prayer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-2t7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9493"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9511,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9493\/revisions\/9511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}