{"id":1284,"date":"2008-10-16T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T04:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2008-10-15T19:36:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T14:06:47","slug":"a-matter-of-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/10\/16\/a-matter-of-life-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"A Matter of life and death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is not about death. That is a process that starts as soon as we\u2019re born. It is the reminders of mortality that has led to my aversion for hospitals. Mangled body parts, groans of suffering that beg me to put the sick person out of his misery. Painful messages that tell me that I\u2019m really not in control.<br \/>\nIt is not about control. That is a process that stops as soon as we\u2019re born, or perhaps way before that. It is the reminders of the hands that decide my destiny that nauseate me. Faces begging for answers as to why it had to happen to them. It warns me of age, and a clock ticking somewhere.<br \/>\nIt is not about death. It is about groping frustratingly for answers that seem to elude me. It is about wondering if I have missed my destiny, and wondering if everything I experience is a clue to something that I\u2019m missing, and the futility that I\u2019d experience if I kept missing them. For, it is when I walk through hospital corridors, that I painfully see the possibilities- physical and mental wrecks of what were once, human beings, it is then I realize that it\u2019s life I\u2019m afraid of.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time, live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not about death. That is a process that starts as soon as we\u2019re born. It is the reminders of mortality that has led to my aversion for hospitals. Mangled body parts, groans of suffering that beg me to put the sick person out of his misery. Painful messages that tell me that I\u2019m <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2008\/10\/16\/a-matter-of-life-and-death\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[534,533,535],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-accident","tag-death","tag-hospitals"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}