{"id":467,"date":"2007-01-10T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T11:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/01\/10\/first-the-flash\/"},"modified":"2007-01-10T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T11:31:14","slug":"first-the-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2007\/01\/10\/first-the-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"First, the flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>on the plane ride home<br \/>\nthat I might be the one who dies young &#8212;<br \/>\nthat flimsy-bodied office worker whose organs<br \/>\ngave out.<br \/>\nThen the smiling round<br \/>\nretired banker capturing me at the local tea shop<br \/>\ntelling me only the rich are happy<br \/>\nthat I don&#8217;t really know Orange County<br \/>\nthat I&#8217;m due for a double-chinned heart attack<br \/>\nand what will happen to my wife and kids then?<br \/>\nFinally a voicemail from my doctor saying<br \/>\nhi<br \/>\nmy total cholesterol is high<br \/>\nI&#8217;m at high risk for cardiac disease.<br \/>\nShe hopes it&#8217;s OK to leave this in a message but she&#8217;s going on vacation.<br \/>\nAnd it came roaring out of his eyes, his ears, his nose, his throat<br \/>\nlike some kind of pressure-cooked stew where you<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t make out the specific vegetables involved<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s obvious something&#8217;s<br \/>\nbeen mashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>on the plane ride home that I might be the one who dies young &#8212; that flimsy-bodied office worker whose organs gave out. Then the smiling round retired banker capturing me at the local tea shop telling me only the rich are happy that I don&#8217;t really know Orange County that I&#8217;m due for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-o-verse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}