{"id":706,"date":"2008-07-23T22:31:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T05:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=706"},"modified":"2012-08-13T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:57:20","slug":"dont-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/dont-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Do It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody needed to be there to say that to the woman who killed herself today. As I recall the radio news story, she committed suicide because her house was headed for foreclosure. Next time you think &#8220;ending it&#8221; is better than dealing with life, don&#8217;t do it. (Where were her family and friends in her anguish?!)<\/p>\n<p>And somebody needed to be there to say it to the person who broke the guy&#8217;s ankles along the freeway. Turns out the victim was changing a flat tire when the other character came along and drove over the lower part of his legs. And kept on going. Next time you&#8217;re tempted to leave the scene of an accident or otherwise dodge personal responsibility, don&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>Former Cuban leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSN2346531520080724?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=worldNews&#038;rpc=22&#038;sp=true\">Fidel Castro on Wednesday said<\/a> Cuba does not have to explain or &#8220;ask forgiveness&#8221; about a report out of Russia this week that Russia might use its Cold War ally Cuba as a refueling base for nuclear-capable bombers. My advice: Don&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>If John McCain is considering removing the threat of my write-in candidacy for President of the United States by selecting me as his VP running mate, I say: Don&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody needed to be there to say that to the woman who killed herself today. As I recall the radio news story, she committed suicide because her house was headed for foreclosure. Next time you think &#8220;ending it&#8221; is better than dealing with life, don&#8217;t do it. (Where were her family and friends in her &#8230; <a title=\"Don&#8217;t Do It!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/dont-do-it\/\" aria-label=\"More on Don&#8217;t Do It!\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[365,363],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons-for-living","category-mark4prez","tag-nuclear","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-bo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}