{"id":1423,"date":"2006-12-07T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/the-shock-of-news\/"},"modified":"2006-12-07T19:07:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T00:07:30","slug":"the-shock-of-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/the-shock-of-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The shock of news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, the news are full of tragedies, whether on a big scale or on a smaller, more personal one. Most of the time, we read\/hear about them and go on with our day, but once in a while, a particular tragedy grabs us and leaves us shaken and full of questions.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days, I&rsquo;ve followed the news of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mailtribune.com\/special\/missing\/kim\/\">the disappearance of CNET editor James Kim<\/a> and his family who were on a road trip but never came back home. After a little more than a week, rescuers found his wife and two young girls alive (age 4 and 7 months) and in good health. Their car got stuck in the snow on a remote road in Oregon and after many days of waiting to be rescued, the husband decided to go try to find help.<\/p>\n<p>They found his body <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/James+Kim+found+deceased\/2100-1028_3-6141498.html\">yesterday<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2300-1028_3-6140928-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg\">less than a mile away from his family<\/a>, separated from them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.layoutscene.com\/james%2Dkim%2Dpath\/james-kim\/james-kim-path02.jpg\">by a sheer cliff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do not know these people but the news shook me, most likely because it is so easy to see myself in their place. I imagine the desperation, the anger directed towards oneself, the tough decision that has to be made (separate or stay together?) when you&rsquo;re tired, cold and hungry and you&rsquo;ve been waiting for rescue for a week. And then there&rsquo;s the belief that in this technologically advanced world, a family lost in the woods should be found rather easily. I get dizzy just trying to imagine how his wife must feel right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, the news are full of tragedies, whether on a big scale or on a smaller, more personal one. Most of the time, we read\/hear about them and go on with our day, but once in a while, a particular tragedy grabs us and leaves us shaken and full of questions. In the last&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/07\/the-shock-of-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The shock of news<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}