{"id":15751,"date":"2002-07-08T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-08T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/08\/i-so-hoped-that-this-was-just-a-bad-rumor-when-i\/"},"modified":"2002-07-08T15:46:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-08T15:46:00","slug":"i-so-hoped-that-this-was-just-a-bad-rumor-when-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/08\/i-so-hoped-that-this-was-just-a-bad-rumor-when-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I so hoped that this was just a bad rumor when I read it earlier this morning, but it seems to be true.  The body of late baseball legend <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/baseball\/news\/2002\/07\/08\/williams_cryonics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ted Williams is apparently in a cryonic warehouse in Arizona<\/a> at the request of his son.  This is just horrible.  As a Boston Globe columnist says, &ldquo;There are only two ways to think of this: Best case &ndash; The son is in denial and thinks he can bring his father back to life. Worst case &ndash; John Henry hopes to profit from prospective cloning or DNA distribution.&rdquo;   In either case, Ted Williams&rsquo; son needs to rethink his actions and honor his father with a proper memorial and burial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-78689742?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I so hoped that this was just a bad rumor when I read it earlier this morning, but it seems to be true. The body of late baseball legend Ted Williams is apparently in a cryonic warehouse in Arizona at the request of his son. This is just horrible. As a Boston Globe columnist says, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/08\/i-so-hoped-that-this-was-just-a-bad-rumor-when-i\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}