{"id":760,"date":"2005-02-24T19:39:52","date_gmt":"2005-02-24T19:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=760"},"modified":"2005-02-24T19:39:52","modified_gmt":"2005-02-24T19:39:52","slug":"specs_appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Specs Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/europe\/02\/24\/pope\/index.html\">hospitalized again and has had a tracheotomy performed on him<\/a>.  I sincerely hope that he recovers.  Despite what the Catholic Church thinks of atheists like me, I admire the man&#8217;s endurance and I certainly sympathize with his current situation.  I might suggest that he use his convalescence to reconsider his characterization of homosexuality as part of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnet.org\/thenews\/newsdesk\/L22608092.htm\">the ideology of evil<\/a>,&#8221; but that&#8217;s probably a futile hope.  We won&#8217;t even get into his comparison between abortion and the Nazi Holocaust.  No, on second thought, I&#8217;m not letting that pass, either.  I&#8217;m willing to recognize the moral qualms people have with abortion.  I&#8217;m absolutely not willing to let them compare it with the bureaucratized, forced exterminations carried out by the Nazis.  And now that it&#8217;s come up, I don&#8217;t seem to remember the Church <a href=\"http:\/\/www-tech.mit.edu\/Issue\/V118\/N13\/bvatican.13w.html\">having much to say<\/a> about those events while they were taking place.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m wearing a new pair of glasses.  They&#8217;re much lighter than my old pair and the lenses are a bit smaller.  I can also finally see things clearly in my left field of vision without turning my head.  I got my new specs at a place called Downtown Eyes, a family-run business not far from where I live.  My last experience getting new glasses was less than perfect; my prescription was off because the doctor couldn&#8217;t accommodate my wheelchair during the exam and I couldn&#8217;t see the chart properly.  I was pleasantly surprised when things went much more smoothly this time and I&#8217;m happy to recommend Downtown Eyes for your eye care needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pope has been hospitalized again and has had a tracheotomy performed on him. I sincerely hope that he recovers. Despite what the Catholic Church thinks of atheists like me, I admire the man&#8217;s endurance and I certainly sympathize with his current situation. I might suggest that he use his convalescence to reconsider his characterization <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=760' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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-760","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\/p9Iwau-cg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}