{"id":1962,"date":"2013-07-24T13:54:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T17:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2015-01-03T06:55:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T11:55:58","slug":"we-all-bleed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1962","title":{"rendered":"Do We all bleed just the same&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>We all bleed just the same &#8211; whether from the flesh, the heart-ache of loved ones lost, mental anguish.\u00a0 It makes no difference our political, religious, or social rank.\u00a0 It makes no difference our ethnicity or race or gender &#8211; identity of any kind.\u00a0 It makes no difference whether Gentile or Jew, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free &#8211; we all bleed just the same.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When I sit on my stoop in the early morning and talk to a hardened pain-in-the-butt regular who just arrived home on a bus from Florida, from his last parent\u2019s funeral&#8230; wanting someone to acknowledge his crying grief and to just find someone to show his father\u2019s Purple Heart, medals from Korea, his folded flag, the reference of his great-grandfather in a book about African-Americans in Seminole County &#8211; I know we all bleed just the same.<\/p>\n<p>When a well-to-do uncle, husband, cousin, father, friend suddenly and unexpectedly dies on the operating table.\u00a0 When his funeral will be dignified and well attended in the midst of grief and heart-ache &#8211; know that we all bleed just the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all bleed just the same &#8211; whether from the flesh, the heart-ache of loved ones lost, mental anguish.\u00a0 It makes no difference our political, religious, or social rank.\u00a0 It makes no difference our ethnicity or race or gender &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1962\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-thoughts","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2112,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}