{"id":967,"date":"2008-04-07T05:03:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T10:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=967"},"modified":"2008-04-07T05:03:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T10:03:42","slug":"the-elephant-in-the-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=967","title":{"rendered":"The Elephant in the Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening, I visited a very dear friend who was diagnosed with cancer in November 2006.  At this point, not only is she confined to her home, but she&#8217;s unable to eat or from the look of it last night, unable to keep down liquids as well.<br \/>\nI hadn&#8217;t planned on it, but at one point, I told her how much I will miss her.  It was totally spontaneous and while it certainly made sense to acknowledge that most gigantic of elephants, it feels like I&#8217;ve betrayed my friend by giving up while she is still battling to remain with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last evening, I visited a very dear friend who was diagnosed with cancer in November 2006. At this point, not only is she confined to her home, but she&#8217;s unable to eat or from the look of it last night, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=967\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}