{"id":179461,"date":"2018-02-02T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/02\/i-think-thats-the-worst-thing-ive-ever-heard-how-appalling\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:37:00","slug":"i-think-thats-the-worst-thing-ive-ever-heard-how-appalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/02\/i-think-thats-the-worst-thing-ive-ever-heard-how-appalling\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think That&#8217;s the Worst Thing I&#8217;ve Ever Heard, How Appalling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6WlgUL4.giff\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6WlgUL4.giff\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"275\" \/><\/a>In what is most certainly not a Count Rugen<sup>*<\/sup> moment, I give you the most depressing headline I&#8217;ve seen in quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about a man who just won the lottery, and decides that he can <b>finally<\/b> afford to see the doctor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/new-york-lottery-winner-dies-weeks-after-scooping-jackpot-796957\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies Weeks Later<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, the solution to our broken healthcare system is more capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093779\/\">The Princess Bride<\/a><\/i>, watch it, watch it again, and then watch it again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is most certainly not a Count Rugen* moment, I give you the most depressing headline I&#8217;ve seen in quite a while. It&#8217;s about a man who just won the lottery, and decides that he can finally afford to see the doctor: Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, &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":[463,460],"class_list":["post-179461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-healthcare","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179461"}],"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=179461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}