{"id":3893,"date":"2005-11-16T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2010-07-13T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T18:46:03","slug":"good-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3893","title":{"rendered":"Lobotomies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What an absolutely incredible and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/16\/arts\/16lobo.html\">heart-wrenching story<\/a>.  (<b>Warning<\/b>:  horrible photo at the top &#8211; difficult to look at.  Sorry, ricki!!  Should have put a warning there.)<\/p>\n<p>I have extremely personal responses to the issue of lobotomy &#8211; and I don&#8217;t know why.  I don&#8217;t know anyone who was lobotomized.  But it fills me with horror &#8211; and yet I also am drawn to the topic.  Tennessee Williams&#8217; sister, etc. &#8230; If I believed in previous lifetimes I could theorize that either I had been lobotomized or I was a doctor who performed them.  It brings up such a visceral response of terror and pity.  For example &#8211; I could barely get through the article above.  It was very painful for me to get through, and I had to ignore the top photo. Too much.  Odd.  I can&#8217;t explain it.<\/p>\n<p>Good for you, Howard Dully, good for you for having the courage to look into your own past, to try to find out &#8220;what was missing&#8221;.  And then for having the courage to share it.<\/p>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an absolutely incredible and heart-wrenching story. (Warning: horrible photo at the top &#8211; difficult to look at. Sorry, ricki!! Should have put a warning there.) I have extremely personal responses to the issue of lobotomy &#8211; and I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19777,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3893\/revisions\/19777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}