{"id":1174,"date":"2022-07-26T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2022-07-26T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T18:17:31","slug":"the-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1174","title":{"rendered":"The Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Chapter Six in \u201cDecades with the Squad,\u201d by William Palmer Jervey, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The young fellow had \u201cbroken up\u201d with his girlfriend and decided that life was not worth living. With some effort one can understand that much. The method or procedure by which he attempted to end it all really staggers the imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He loaded a 12-guage with bird shot and tied the weapon on the dining room table. Then he tied a string to the trigger, ran the string around a table leg and unrolled the remainder out ten feet beyond the muzzle of the shotgun. Here he took his position and yanked the string, taking the load in his midsection. At this point he decided he didn\u2019t want to die and called the rescue squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He had an awful wound, complete with evisceration. We applied a moist dressing, notified the sheriff, a legal requirement in all cases involving a gunshot wound, and promptly transported the young man to the emergency room. He eventually wound up in surgery where some of his innards were removed. In time he returned to health and strength; I hope to greater wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sage words of a local philosopher stay with me. \u201cHe tried to commit suicide and durn near killed himself.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapter Six in \u201cDecades with the Squad,\u201d by William Palmer Jervey, Jr. The young fellow had \u201cbroken up\u201d with his girlfriend and decided that life was not worth living. With some effort one can understand that much. The method or procedure by which he attempted to end it all really staggers the imagination. He loaded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decades-with-the-squad"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}