I was reading a blog post yesterday by an EMT who was describing the consequences of not wearing seatbelts.\u00c2\u00a0 He went into some detail about the various things that happen to a body when it goes from moving, say, 40 m.p.h. to 0 m.p.h in the space of a second.\u00c2\u00a0 There were obvious things, like hitting your head on the windshield or being ejected from the vehicle.\u00c2\u00a0 But there were less intuitive injuries, like internal organs being sliced in two by tendons as they rush to the front of the ribcage, or femurs being driven up through the pelvis.\u00c2\u00a0 It was horrifying to consider all the ways the body reacts to what the author called “free floating energy.”<\/p>\n
I thought about this some more this morning in the wake of the insane shootings at Virginia Tech.\u00c2\u00a0 Before I was a parent, my reaction to tragedies like these centered mostly on the victims.\u00c2\u00a0 Think of what they lost.\u00c2\u00a0 Think of the things they’ll never get to do or see or be.<\/em><\/p>\n But today I find myself thinking of the parents.\u00c2\u00a0 How do you handle something like this, when your child’s life comes to such an abrupt, unexpected end?\u00c2\u00a0 What happens to all that love and pride and concern, when it suddenly has no attachment?\u00c2\u00a0 What becomes of all those memories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was reading a blog post yesterday by an EMT who was describing the consequences of not wearing seatbelts.\u00c2\u00a0 He went into some detail about the various things that happen to a body when it goes from moving, say, 40 m.p.h. to 0 m.p.h in the space of a second.\u00c2\u00a0 There were obvious things, like […]<\/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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ava"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-dz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","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=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}