{"id":678,"date":"2004-11-30T19:18:52","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T19:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=678"},"modified":"2004-11-30T19:18:52","modified_gmt":"2004-11-30T19:18:52","slug":"memento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Memento"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minor correction to yesterday’s entry. It was a woman with a spinal cord injury<\/em>. As Paul<\/a> noted, treating someone with a spinal cord is not exactly newsworthy.
\nI’ve often wondered what I’d want done with my body after I’m gone. Right now, my living will states that I want to be cremated and have my ashes scattered in the Seine. But then I stumbled across LifeGem<\/a>, a place that takes some of the carbon from your remains and turns it into a small diamond. A bit sentimental, but still, an interesting concept. There’s something poetic about having a little piece of yourself turned into a jewel. Chances are that little gemstone would be around long after everyone who knew you had perished. However, I can’t decide on a radiant cut or a princess cut.
\nThis idea came from a list of science-related things to try before (or after) you die<\/a>. Can someone hook me up with the chance to pet a tiger? I totally want to try that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minor correction to yesterday’s entry. It was a woman with a spinal cord injury. As Paul noted, treating someone with a spinal cord is not exactly newsworthy. I’ve often wondered what I’d want done with my body after I’m gone. Right now, my living will states that I want to be cremated and have my […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9Iwau-memento","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}