{"id":1004,"date":"2005-03-22T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2005-03-22T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/22\/posting-about-that-thing-going-on-in-florida\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T11:46:37","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T15:46:37","slug":"posting-about-that-thing-going-on-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/22\/posting-about-that-thing-going-on-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Posting about that thing going on in Florida."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>I&#8217;ve been following the news, but I really have nothing to say on the issue, because, really, it&#8217;s none of my business.  And it&#8217;s none of your business either.  It&#8217;s a family tragedy on all sides.  I know that I would not want to remain in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, but that&#8217;s meaningless, because I&#8217;m not her.  But neither is DeLay or Frist.<\/p>\n<p>I know that when my mother was dying, at the ripe old age of <em>49<\/em>, she told my dad to pull the plug if it became necessary, and she refused certain types of pain medication, because nothing upset her more than the idea of being &quot;alive&quot; but not conscious or lucid (thankfully, i guess, pulling the plug wasn&#8217;t necessary).  But a prolonged terminal illness is certainly different, if only because SKMH made her fill out about an inch thick stack of papers regarding <em>every single possible <\/em>treatment so that there would be no question as to her intent.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know.  It&#8217;s all just such a personal tragedy, and I feel like we&#8217;ve become a bunch of voyeurs, counting down the hours and days until <em>anything<\/em> happens.<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;ll note that I&#8217;m not using any names. or links.  Because I don&#8217;t want this entry adding to the thousands that are returned when someone does a google search to see how the topic is &quot;moving&quot;.  I&#8217;m still having qualms about publishing even this much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been following the news, but I really have nothing to say on the issue, because, really, it&#8217;s none of my business. And it&#8217;s none of your business either. It&#8217;s a family tragedy on all sides. I know that I would not want to remain in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years, but that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-current-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-gc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}