{"id":1784,"date":"2019-08-29T12:19:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2019-08-29T12:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T16:19:21","slug":"lakeland-hs-teacher-committed-after-describing-how-hed-carry-out-a-mass-killing-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/08\/29\/lakeland-hs-teacher-committed-after-describing-how-hed-carry-out-a-mass-killing-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland HS teacher committed after describing how he&#8217;d carry out a mass killing, bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"367\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/lakelandhighschool.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/lakelandhighschool.jpg 652w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/lakelandhighschool-300x169.jpg 300w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Florida teacher was forcibly committed for a mental\nevaluation after he told his students how he would carry out a mass killing if\nhe were an active shooter, authorities said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said Lakeland High School\nmath teacher Keith Cook was taken into custody Monday under Florida&#8217;s Baker\nAct. He was taken to a mental health facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cook made statements to his students during a lockdown drill\non what to do if a gunman is on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to a student, Cook said he would hide a bomb with\nnails, fire a couple of rounds, then explode the bomb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cook is on leave from Polk County Public Schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Florida teacher was forcibly committed for a mental evaluation after he told his students how he would carry out a mass killing if he were an active shooter, authorities&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}