{"id":8197,"date":"2010-12-13T21:42:48","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2010-12-13T21:42:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T13:42:48","slug":"before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/12\/before-its-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Before It&#8217;s Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8198\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/120.jpg?resize=183%2C135\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/120.jpg?w=261&amp;ssl=1 261w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/120.jpg?resize=96%2C71&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I encountered someone<br \/>\nwho seem perfectly normal,<br \/>\nwho turned out to be suicidal.<\/p>\n<p>I had a chat with him,<br \/>\nto discuss his woes,<br \/>\nwith sprinkles of advice.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad I didn&#8217;t pay less attention,<br \/>\nthat I didn&#8217;t turn away in his time of need,<br \/>\nthat I was able to offer a listening ear.<\/p>\n<p>Since we can&#8217;t tell who is suicidal (or dying),<br \/>\nmay we be kind to one another,<br \/>\nbefore it is too late, before we regret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I encountered someone who seem perfectly normal, who turned out to be suicidal. I had a chat with him, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,447,142],"class_list":["post-8197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-death","tag-kindness","tag-regret","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}