{"id":127,"date":"2011-04-17T22:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T06:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2011-04-17T22:40:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T06:40:31","slug":"sadness-doesnt-even-come-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=127","title":{"rendered":"Sadness doesn&#8217;t even come close"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\" style=\"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; \">My boy is going to die soon. &nbsp;He has been diagnosed with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.battens.org.au\/\">degenerative brain disorder<\/a>. &nbsp;He is almost 4 now and&nbsp;we will be &#8220;lucky&#8221; if he sees 6 years old. &nbsp;There are is no cure. &nbsp;All we can do is try to keep him comfortable.<\/p>\n<div>I alternate between numbness and weeping. &nbsp;He&#8217;s such a happy little guy and he doesn&#8217;t deserve this. &nbsp;It is a horrible disease.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re thinking of getting him a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pleoworld.com\/Home.aspx\">Pleo<\/a> to play with as he loves dinosaurs. &nbsp;I would be interested in hearing from people who have one to see if it is worth getting one for a small child.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My boy is going to die soon. &nbsp;He has been diagnosed with a degenerative brain disorder. &nbsp;He is almost 4 now and&nbsp;we will be &#8220;lucky&#8221; if he sees 6 years old. &nbsp;There are is no cure. &nbsp;All we can do is try to keep him comfortable. I alternate between numbness and weeping. &nbsp;He&#8217;s such a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sadness doesn&#8217;t even come close&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p561S3-23","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}