{"id":99,"date":"2018-11-09T00:30:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=99"},"modified":"2018-11-09T00:30:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T00:30:58","slug":"2006-01-26-compassion-and-complacency-sympathy-and-sociopathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/11\/09\/2006-01-26-compassion-and-complacency-sympathy-and-sociopathy\/","title":{"rendered":"2006-01-26 Compassion and Complacency, Sympathy and Sociopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could anyone, whether Bishop of Oxford or next of kin, be so self-righteous as to condone condemning <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/4625538.stm\">someone<\/a> hopelessly ill to having to struggle to end her misery with pills and a plastic bag and then, failing that, to having to drag her weary bones to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dignitas.ch\/\">Zurich<\/a> to free herself at last from a wretched fate that\u2019s no one&#8217;s to endure or not to endure but her own? Does Reverend Harries truly hold life &#8220;precious&#8221;? Who can wish for &#8220;one of the people I love most in the world&#8221; anything but the release she seeks from the pain she can no longer bear?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could anyone, whether Bishop of Oxford or next of kin, be so self-righteous as to condone condemning someone hopelessly ill to having to struggle to end her misery with pills and a plastic bag and then, failing that, to having to drag her weary bones to Zurich to free herself at last from a wretched &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/11\/09\/2006-01-26-compassion-and-complacency-sympathy-and-sociopathy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2006-01-26 Compassion and Complacency, Sympathy and Sociopathy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}