{"id":66639,"date":"2016-07-01T08:28:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66639"},"modified":"2016-07-01T08:29:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T12:29:24","slug":"four-vets-tie-up-suicide-hotline-with-crank-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66639","title":{"rendered":"Four vets tie up suicide hotline with crank calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2016\/06\/30\/veterans-tie-up-va-suicide-hotline-abusive-calls\/86507544\/\">USAToday<\/a> reports that four veterans have made 5,619 abusive and vulgar phone calls to the Veterans&#8217; Affairs&#8217; suicide hotline just in May for reasons that aren&#8217;t explained in the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unacceptable that they would block that kind of access for other veterans and other active-duty service members that really need crisis help and so we&#8217;re working through this clinically now to address that, cause it&#8217;s just wrong,&#8221; Gibson said.  &#8220;My bottom line was deal with it and deal with it quickly because we&#8217;re not going to continue to  have that happen.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Five thousand phone calls from four people seem like a lot to me. I know of people who would do something like that &#8211; my inbox is full of emails from people like that &#8211; the VA ought to get to the root of the problem. I get the sense that, whatever their reason is, it&#8217;s probably not helping to force the VA to spend scarce resources on catering to these four guys&#8217; opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Dave for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAToday reports that four veterans have made 5,619 abusive and vulgar phone calls to the Veterans&#8217; &hellip; <a title=\"Four vets tie up suicide hotline with crank calls\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=66639\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four vets tie up suicide hotline with crank calls<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}