{"id":22,"date":"2008-06-26T20:59:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T18:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-06-26T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-26T18:59:06","slug":"overheard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Overheard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The important thing is that you&#8217;re okay.&#8221;\u00a0 These are the words I overheard while passing by a person on a cell phone.\u00a0 Knowing nothing more about the individuals involved, these seem to me words one never really wants to hear, and one only says them when the person on the other end has gone through a traumatic experience that has resulting in them, at least in some way, <strong>not<\/strong> being okay.\u00a0 Was the person in a traffic accident or did that person observe a violent interchange?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll never know.\u00a0 Neither will we know when that person will be okay.\u00a0 We break easy, and sometimes repair slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Along those same lines, I commend to your attention an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/rundowns\/rundown.php?prgId=13&amp;prgDate=06-25-2008&amp;view=storyview\">interview<\/a> by Terry Gross with Jill Bolte Taylor, a researcher at Indiana University on the brain who had a stroke that impacted the left side of her brain.\u00a0 Her story of recovery is nothing short of remarkable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The important thing is that you&#8217;re okay.&#8221;\u00a0 These are the words I overheard while passing by a person on a cell phone.\u00a0 Knowing nothing more about the individuals involved, these seem to me words one never really wants to hear, and one only says them when the person on the other end has gone through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Overheard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[28,29],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanity","tag-eavesdropping","tag-stroke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}