{"id":48,"date":"2007-04-16T17:19:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T22:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/04\/16\/imagine\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T17:19:35","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T22:19:35","slug":"imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/04\/16\/imagine\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the horrific tragedy at Virgina Tech today, I feel the need to express some thoughts that have really bothered me.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only imagine all the parents that will never see their children again.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only imagine all the brothers and sisters grieving for the their siblings.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only imagine all the daughters who will never get to dance with their fathers at their weddings.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only imagine all the people who will never find their soulmates, fall in love and feel the exquisite joy at seeing their newborns faces.\u00c2\u00a0 I can imagine a lot of good things that life would have offered these people had this tragedy not occured.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What I can&#8217;t imagine is\u00c2\u00a0what gives one person the right to decide that he has the right to end a life.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine why he\/she thinks he has the right to rob survivors of the joy of their\u00c2\u00a0loved ones.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t imagine the pain and suffering the victims families must be going through.<\/p>\n<p>I have a niece at Tech and was so relieved to find out that she was safe in her apartment.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the horrific tragedy at Virgina Tech today, I feel the need to express some thoughts that have really bothered me.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only imagine all the parents that will never see their children again.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only imagine all the brothers and sisters grieving for the their siblings.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only imagine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}