{"id":551,"date":"2007-10-22T23:03:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T07:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/10\/22\/surgery-and-ethics-and-more\/"},"modified":"2007-10-22T23:22:45","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T07:22:45","slug":"surgery-and-ethics-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/surgery-and-ethics-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgery And Ethics And More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"magritte-forbidden.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/magritte-forbidden.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image552\" height=\"93\" alt=\"magritte-forbidden.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/magritte-forbidden.jpg?fit=640%2C93\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve complained here and elsewhere about the surgical mutilation of disabled minors. I&#8217;ve also shared my preoccupation with conjoined twins. Now, I urge you to take a look at a thought-provoking <a href=\"http:\/\/aswecame.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> where these subjects are addressed with remarkable compassion and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the <a href=\"http:\/\/aswecame.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/child-with-sirenomelia-rejects.html\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> to meet an adorable 8 year old girl with &#8216;Mermaid Syndrome&#8217; who has no desire for surgery to separate her fused legs.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is the work of a gifted young woman who also has an amazing website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phreeque.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">phreeque.com<\/a>, where I spent hours and plan to spend more.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Elizabeth. xxoo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve complained here and elsewhere about the surgical mutilation of disabled minors. I&#8217;ve also shared my preoccupation with conjoined twins. Now, I urge you to take a look at a thought-provoking blog where these subjects are addressed with remarkable compassion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/surgery-and-ethics-and-more\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,9,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-8T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}