{"id":18797,"date":"2013-10-07T20:32:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T01:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18797"},"modified":"2013-10-07T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T01:33:56","slug":"we-are-suffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=18797","title":{"rendered":"We are suffering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend told me that in Greece when you say &#8220;Hello, how are you?&#8221; the response is ypof\u00e9roume (ipo fer me), which means in common speech, &#8220;We are fine.&#8221; But in reality its real translation is, &#8220;We are suffering.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>So today, those of us about to die (at some point in life) salute you with ypof\u00e9roume. My life is fabulous, and still I suffer. I have too many people close to me who are battling cancer. I am reading too many blogs\/books about racism. I am earning in a year what I used to make in a month and though I feel free, living is not free (easy, yes, but not free). <\/p>\n<p>Yes, we are fine, and we are suffering. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, this goes without saying. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend told me that in Greece when you say &#8220;Hello, how are you?&#8221; the response is ypof\u00e9roume (ipo fer me), which means in common speech, &#8220;We are fine.&#8221; But in reality its real translation is, &#8220;We are suffering.&#8221; So today, those of us about to die (at some point in life) salute you with ypof\u00e9roume. My life is fabulous, and still I suffer. I have too many people close to me who are battling&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-4Tb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18799,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18797\/revisions\/18799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}