{"id":1232,"date":"2005-03-23T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T00:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1232"},"modified":"2005-03-23T17:59:33","modified_gmt":"2005-03-23T22:59:33","slug":"to_see_but_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/to_see_but_not\/","title":{"rendered":"To see but not understand&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/001229.html#comment6061\">just finished commenting<\/a> on how many weird death stories we find in India when I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/7259142\">this story that takes the cake<\/a>&#8230; well, for today at least &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><strong>Woman kills herself so blind sons can see<\/strong>\n\nBut corneas of little use to her children, doctors say \n\nNEW DELHI, India &#8211; An Indian woman committed suicide so her two blind sons could receive her eyes and see, a newspaper reported Monday.\n\n&#8230;Doctors in the southern city of Chennai say Kumar\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u2122s condition cannot be helped with a cornea transplant and also suspect his elder brother does not have a cornea defect.\n\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u0153We had told the family earlier itself that a corneal transplant was not needed for the younger son,\u00c3\u00a2\u00c2\u20ac\u00c2\u009d the Express quoted hospital official G. Seethalakshmi saying.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Between the Mother&#8217;s obvious love and the utter Maji-like tragedy of the whole thing, I&#8217;m just speechless.  <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had just finished commenting on how many weird death stories we find in India when I came across this story that takes the cake&#8230; well, for today at least &#8211; Woman kills herself so blind sons can see But &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/23\/to_see_but_not\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}