{"id":476,"date":"2004-08-24T00:26:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-24T00:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2004-08-24T00:26:06","modified_gmt":"2004-08-24T00:26:06","slug":"passing_on_a_kidney_transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Passing on a Kidney Transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelfraase.com\/index.php\/hasten\/passing_on_a_kidney_transplant\/\">Michael Fraase<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I thought it would be more difficult, or maybe more complicated, but it was neither. A transplant surgeon called from the University of Minnesota this morning to tell me they had a cadaver kidney for me (I?ve been on the transplant list for four-and-a-half years). ?I?ll pass,? I said in a quiet but steady voice. ?Call the next person on the list.? The physician wanted a reason. ?I?m still working out some ethical issues with the whole transplant business.? There. It was out before I had a chance to even think about censoring myself.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Fraase: I thought it would be more difficult, or maybe more complicated, but it was neither. A transplant surgeon called from the University of Minnesota this morning to tell me they had a cadaver kidney for me (I?ve been on the transplant list for four-and-a-half years). ?I?ll pass,? I said in a quiet but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}