{"id":8303,"date":"2015-02-23T18:39:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2"},"modified":"2015-02-23T18:39:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:39:14","slug":"alzheimers-research-needed-a-shout-out-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8303","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer's research needed a shout out, too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Oscar ceremony\/marathon produced its usual political fare from recipients Sunday night — with which I have no particular problem.<\/p>\n

Patricia Arquette spoke out for wage equality for women; John Legend and Common offered a comment on the incarceration rate among African-Americans.<\/p>\n

Julianne Moore had a chance to speak out for Alzheimer’s research as she accepted the Best Actress honor for her role in “Still Alice,” a film about a woman suffering from early onset of the disease that robs people of their cognitive skill; it is ultimately fatal, always.<\/p>\n

The disease affects millions of Americans. It brings untold agony to patients’ families. I waited for Moore to offer a word about the crisis affecting so many families around the world.<\/p>\n

It didn’t come. Too bad. She missed a great opportunity. But hey, that’s all right. Perhaps someone out there will remind her of how important this film role is to many of us who’ve experienced the heartache of Alzheimer’s disease.<\/p>\n

I’ll be waiting to hear what she has to say in support of funding for Alzheimer’s research.<\/p>\n\n

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The Oscar ceremony\/marathon produced its usual political fare from recipients Sunday night — with which I have no particular problem. Patricia Arquette spoke out for wage equality for women; John Legend and Common offered a comment on the incarceration rate among African-Americans. Julianne Moore had a chance to speak out for Alzheimer’s research as she … Continue reading Alzheimer's research needed a shout out, too<\/span> →<\/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":[3,1],"tags":[273,601,1008,2542,2608,3460,3513,5147],"class_list":["post-8303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-uncategorized","tag-alzheimers-disease","tag-best-actress-oscar","tag-civil-rights","tag-john-legend","tag-julianne-moore","tag-oscar-ceremony","tag-patricia-arquette","tag-wage-equality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","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=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}