{"id":16952,"date":"2020-06-30T20:34:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=16952"},"modified":"2020-06-30T20:34:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T01:34:44","slug":"its-hopeless-its-majestic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/its-hopeless-its-majestic\/","title":{"rendered":"it&#8217;s hopeless, it&#8217;s majestic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for some reason, it was a great day &#8212; was it eating candy mid-day? was it  the combo of eating candy AND leaving briefly mid-day? was it adam liptak on the daily? we&#8217;ll never know. but that kind of buoyancy is rare these days. the first great thing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have a Carl Reiner story that I hold very dear to me. I figured I&#39;d share it today, on the day of his passing, because I hope it will bring some other people some joy the way it does me.<\/p>&mdash; Matthew Rosenberg (@AshcanPress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AshcanPress\/status\/1278063982767738882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">second, this amazing obituary, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/30\/sports\/olympics\/angela-madsen-paralympian-dead.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email&amp;referringSource=articleShare\">&#8220;Angela Madsen, Paralympian Rower, Dies on Solo Pacific Voyage at 60&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; her life, my god &#8212; this accident happens AFTER she&#8217;s been paralyzed AND homeless: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Then came an accident in the San Francisco subway in which she plunged headfirst from her wheelchair onto the train tracks. It left her with a mild brain injury but led her to realize that she had more to be grateful for than sorry about, and she resolved to shape her own destiny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">later she has cancer and  double mastectomy! and she keeps going! IT IS INSANE. and i just loved this line: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>With her legs paralyzed, she found freedom rowing across oceans. \u201cIt\u2019s hopeless, it\u2019s majestic, it\u2019s exhilarating,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">may we all die trying, like angela madsen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for some reason, it was a great day &#8212; was it eating candy mid-day? was it the combo of eating candy AND leaving briefly mid-day? was it adam liptak on the daily? we&#8217;ll never know. but that kind of buoyancy is rare these days. the first great thing: second, this amazing obituary, &#8220;Angela Madsen, Paralympian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16953,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16952\/revisions\/16953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}