{"id":277,"date":"2011-10-29T01:03:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T00:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/?p=277"},"modified":"2011-10-29T01:03:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T00:03:17","slug":"canadian-satirist-on-bullied-gay-teens-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/10\/29\/canadian-satirist-on-bullied-gay-teens-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian satirist on bullied gay teen&#8217;s suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Strong words from Rick Mercer: &#8220;It&#8217;s no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it&#8217;s gonna get better. We have to make it better now&#8221;. The statement comes from Rick&#8217;s latest rant, which was inspired by the suicide of 15-year-old Jamie Hubley, and was broadcast on this Tuesday&#8217;s episode of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickmercer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Mercer Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The clip is getting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/life\/the-hot-button\/gay-kids-need-it-to-get-better-now-rick-mercer-rants\/article2215606\/\" target=\"_blank\">a lot of attention<\/a> for its impassioned, and very direct, take on the issues of gay bullying and teen suicide. Rick ends the video by telling gay people in public life that they &#8220;can&#8217;t be invisible, not anymore&#8221;, and that &#8220;300 kids is 300 too many&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See video here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/strombo\/social-issues\/rick-mercers-powerful-new-rant.html\">bullied gay teen suicide<\/a><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong words from Rick Mercer: &#8220;It&#8217;s no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it&#8217;s gonna get better. We have to make it better now&#8221;. The statement comes from Rick&#8217;s latest rant, which was inspired by the suicide of 15-year-old Jamie Hubley, and was broadcast on this Tuesday&#8217;s episode of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/2011\/10\/29\/canadian-satirist-on-bullied-gay-teens-suicide\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1574,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-offbeat","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/injury-prevention\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}