{"id":1193831,"date":"2023-08-28T20:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=319f11a3e23b8bbe6fe95c9e7c6afc9f"},"modified":"2023-08-28T20:58:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T20:58:12","slug":"guns-killed-a-record-number-of-children-in-the-us-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/28\/guns-killed-a-record-number-of-children-in-the-us-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Guns Killed a Record Number of Children in the US in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Child gun deaths hit a record high in 2021, breaking the previous record set just one year before, new research finds. A total of 4,752 children in the U.S. died gun-related deaths in 2021, a new study found using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data. This is an 8.8 percent increase in the pediatric gun mortality rate for 2020 and a staggering 41.5 percent increase from 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/guns-killed-a-record-number-of-children-in-the-u-s-in-2021\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun deaths of children increased by over 40 percent between 2018 and 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1459,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4964,4,1573,784,276,1,348],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1193876,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193831\/revisions\/1193876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}