{"id":1813,"date":"2009-02-06T07:35:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T13:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2009-02-06T07:36:41","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T13:36:41","slug":"dreams-deferred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2009\/02\/06\/dreams-deferred\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreams deferred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/people\/article\/0,,20257365,00.html\">Octuplet Mom: A Huge Family Was &#8216;Always a Dream&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gosh, I have some dreams I&#8217;d like to have come true, also, but my sense of right and wrong keeps me from fleecing the government to make them come true.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I just longed for certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn&#8217;t functional. It was pretty, pretty dysfunctional, and whose isn&#8217;t?&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right.  Exactly.  Whose isn&#8217;t?  Fourteen children is not the cure for your childhood pain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Suleman got the payments because of injuries she suffered during a 1999 riot at a California mental hospital where she worked, leaving her with chronic back pain.<\/p>\n<p>She was still receiving disability payments at about the time she was inseminated with octuplets, and doctors had precluded her from taking any job that involved &#8220;prolonged sitting, standing and walking,&#8221; according to workers&#8217; comp documents. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I smell fraud.  Do you smell it?  What kind of person has 14 children when she suffers from chronic back pain?  The fleecing of America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Octuplet Mom: A Huge Family Was &#8216;Always a Dream&#8217; &#8220;That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.&#8221; Gosh, I have some dreams I&#8217;d like to have come true, also, but my sense of right and wrong keeps me from fleecing the government to make them come true. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-tf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}