{"id":4613,"date":"2018-04-11T04:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T04:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/barbara-ehrenreich-gives-up-on-preventative-case\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T04:58:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T04:58:46","slug":"barbara-ehrenreich-gives-up-on-preventative-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/barbara-ehrenreich-gives-up-on-preventative-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Ehrenreich Gives Up on Preventative Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/barbara-ehrenreich-why-im-giving-up-on-preventative-care\/\">Very interesting<\/a>, and not irrational given her age:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">In the last few years I have given up on the many medical measures\u2014cancer screenings, annual exams, Pap smears, for example\u2014expected of a responsible person with health insurance. This was not based on any suicidal impulse.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Younger than Ehrenreich, I will continue to exercise what is called &#39;due diligence.&#39;&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/barbara-ehrenreich-gives-up\/\">Rod Dreher<\/a> who adds his commentary. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Dreher has become a daily read for me. But I have to wonder: how can so prolific a writer and family man have any time left over for the practices of the Ben Op? I mean meditation, prayer, spiritual reading, and the rest. It&#39;s easy to get sucked in, Rod. Be careful. This world&#39;s a vanishing quantity, not that you don&#39;t believe it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Those who aspire to live well must learn to curtail their consumption of mass communication media.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very interesting, and not irrational given her age: In the last few years I have given up on the many medical measures\u2014cancer screenings, annual exams, Pap smears, for example\u2014expected of a responsible person with health insurance. This was not based on any suicidal impulse. Younger than Ehrenreich, I will continue to exercise what is called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/04\/11\/barbara-ehrenreich-gives-up-on-preventative-case\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barbara Ehrenreich Gives Up on Preventative Care&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}