{"id":918,"date":"2017-09-27T21:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T21:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/?page_id=918"},"modified":"2017-09-27T21:45:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T21:45:51","slug":"on-cowardice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/on-cowardice\/","title":{"rendered":"On Cowardice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funk and Wagnalls def. &#8220;n. Lack of courage in the face<\/p>\n<p>of danger, pain, opposition, etc; unworthy timidity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Its been a good few years since I was acquainted with<\/p>\n<p>a woman, early thirties, one child, a boy, divorced.<\/p>\n<p>During the time I knew her she had breast implants<\/p>\n<p>and a ring through one nipple.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m as much a tit guy as anyone, but I&#8217;m rather<\/p>\n<p>old- fashioned in my way and I don&#8217;t think one<\/p>\n<p>should fuck with Mother Nature, she might fuck you back.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fond of saying &#8220;a woman is not a tit&#8221;, in fact I wrote<\/p>\n<p>a blog about it[never published].<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not implying cause and effect, but as it turns out<\/p>\n<p>this woman fell victim to inoperable cancer of the breast<\/p>\n<p>which had metastasized.<\/p>\n<p>That I could not bring myself to visit her in hospice<\/p>\n<p>until the bitter end was an act of cowardice,<\/p>\n<p>which I\u00a0 knew then and know now, I could not<\/p>\n<p>stand the pain, yet I do not believe that I am<\/p>\n<p>so much different than whoever might read this.<\/p>\n<p>Islander.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funk and Wagnalls def. &#8220;n. Lack of courage in the face of danger, pain, opposition, etc; unworthy timidity.&#8221; Its been a good few years since I was acquainted with a woman, early thirties, one child, a boy, divorced. During the time I knew her she had breast implants and a ring through one nipple. I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/on-cowardice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Cowardice&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":919,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/918\/revisions\/919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}