{"id":30449,"date":"2018-06-22T01:41:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T01:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30449"},"modified":"2018-06-22T01:42:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T01:42:49","slug":"one-more-point-about-dr-krauthammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30449","title":{"rendered":"One more point about Dr. Krauthammer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I have written a couple of blog posts in recent days about Charles Krauthammer, the great columnist who died today of cancer at the age of 68.<\/p>\n<p>Both pieces have omitted a reference to Krauthammer. I mentioned &#8212; until now &#8212; the fact that he lived most of his life as a paraplegic.<\/p>\n<p>Why? It turns out that Dr. Krauthammer didn&#8217;t want to be defined by the accident he suffered in his early 20s. He went swimming with a friend. He dived into a pool, hit his head on the floor of the pool &#8212; and never walked again.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to pursue his education. He received his medical degree. He developed a psychiatric practice. Then he went into politics and eventually into journalism. He wrote speeches for Vice President Mondale and won a Pulitzer Prize for his commentary. He did all this while sitting in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Krauthammer never let his paralysis derail his ambition. Nor did he want to wallow in it.<\/p>\n<p>He was a champion of the first magnitude.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have written a couple of blog posts in recent days about Charles Krauthammer, the great columnist who died today of cancer at the age of 68. Both pieces have omitted a reference to Krauthammer. I mentioned &#8212; until now &#8212; the fact that he lived most of his life as a paraplegic. Why? It &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One more point about Dr. Krauthammer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[921],"class_list":["post-30449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-charles-krauthammer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30452,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449\/revisions\/30452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}