{"id":177660,"date":"2019-07-20T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/20\/this-is-the-saddest-thing-that-i-have-read-in-a-very-long-time\/"},"modified":"2019-07-20T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T23:40:00","slug":"this-is-the-saddest-thing-that-i-have-read-in-a-very-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/20\/this-is-the-saddest-thing-that-i-have-read-in-a-very-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Saddest Thing That I Have Read in a Very Long Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A man in Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/crime\/ny-philadelphia-man-rob-kidney-daughter-20190710-u2mxoucx4jd2pmgjkti4npbtpe-story.html\">robbed a store, but gave back the money when he realized that it was not enough to pay for his daughter&#8217;s kidney transplant<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Philadelphia man walked out of a would-be robbery after telling the cashier that the money in the till wouldn\u2019t be enough to fund his daughter\u2019s kidney transplant operation, according to police. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>The store owner told police that the man waved his gun in the air and demanded cash, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2019\/07\/09\/man-attempts-to-rob-store-because-he-needed-money-for-daughters-kidney-transplant-operation-police-say\/\">CBS 3<\/a>. But after getting at least a couple hundred dollars, he changed his mind and gave the money back.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, our healthcare system is the best one in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man in Philadelphia robbed a store, but gave back the money when he realized that it was not enough to pay for his daughter&#8217;s kidney transplant: A Philadelphia man walked out of a would-be robbery after telling the cashier that the money in the till wouldn\u2019t be enough to fund his daughter\u2019s kidney transplant &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[435,463],"class_list":["post-177660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-crimes","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}