{"id":397,"date":"2008-07-17T16:44:40","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:44:40","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T14:44:40","slug":"suicide-synonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/suicide-synonyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide. Synonyms."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>On the bridge, Baldwin counted to ten and stayed frozen. He counted to ten again, then vaulted over. \u201cI still see my hands coming off the railing,\u201d he said. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, \u201cI instantly realized that everything in my life that I\u2019d thought was unfixable was totally fixable\u2014except for having just jumped.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&rarr; Golden Gate bridge and suicide, written in 2003 by Tad Friend: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/2003\/10\/13\/031013fa_fact?currentPage=all\">www.newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The man was grabbed on the eastern promenade of the bridge after passers-by noticed him pacing and growing increasingly despondent. The reason? He had picked out a spot on the western promenade that he wanted to jump from, but separated by six lanes of traffic, he was afraid of getting hit by a car on his way there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&rarr; The mechanisms and prevention of suicide, by Scott Anderson, 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/06\/magazine\/06suicide-t.html?_r=2&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;oref=login&#038;oref=slogin\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Checking for squirrels. Wagging the unemployed. Shifting to fifth gear with the purple-veined kidney stabber. Spanking the shit out of your incapacitated midget. Attacking Mr. Happy. Soaking the whisker biscuit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&rarr; 1700 masturbation synonyms: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewank.com\/synonyms.html\">www.worldwidewank.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the bridge, Baldwin counted to ten and stayed frozen. He counted to ten again, then vaulted over. \u201cI still see my hands coming off the railing,\u201d he said. As he crossed the chord in flight, Baldwin recalls, \u201cI instantly realized that everything in my life that I\u2019d thought was unfixable was totally fixable\u2014except for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/suicide-synonyms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Suicide. Synonyms.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[162,205,233,285,349],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found","tag-golden-gate","tag-journalism","tag-masturbation","tag-poor-impulse-control","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}