{"id":291,"date":"2009-08-12T08:55:13","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2009-08-12T08:56:50","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T12:56:50","slug":"im-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having computer problems, a dead hard drive, so I haven&#8217;t been posting.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t watch the health care &#8220;debate.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 So much concentrated ignorance overloads my despair circuits.\u00c2\u00a0 The current system works fine folks say.\u00c2\u00a0 Take my case:\u00c2\u00a0 Because I was diagnosed with cancer last year, Sarah and I married, and I got on her health insurance, so that when I had a heart attack, I was insured and was able to survive and not be bankrupt afterwards.\u00c2\u00a0 Without last year&#8217;s cancer and Sarah&#8217;s state job, I&#8217;d be toast today.\u00c2\u00a0 Now who says that isn&#8217;t good healthcare?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of reading lately, including a science fiction short story writer of some renown.\u00c2\u00a0 I had to stop reading the collection, however, because of the ill-advised afterwords appended to each story.\u00c2\u00a0 Each one was a &#8220;poor me&#8221; whine reminding the reader of his unappreciated genius, following with a bit of crowing about how brilliant the story was.\u00c2\u00a0 I found them okay, but he&#8217;s pretty much a one-trick pony far as I can tell, and the whining just got on my nerves.\u00c2\u00a0 The marketplace has been hard on us all, buddy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been having computer problems, a dead hard drive, so I haven&#8217;t been posting.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t watch the health care &#8220;debate.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 So much concentrated ignorance overloads my despair circuits.\u00c2\u00a0 The current system works fine folks say.\u00c2\u00a0 Take my case:\u00c2\u00a0 Because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=291\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}