{"id":1330,"date":"2004-10-10T23:26:22","date_gmt":"2004-10-10T23:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/10\/10\/gbye_superman.html"},"modified":"2004-10-10T23:26:22","modified_gmt":"2004-10-10T23:26:22","slug":"gbye_superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/10\/10\/gbye_superman.html","title":{"rendered":"g&#8217;bye superman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am stunned.  When Derrida died today, i chuckled at the NYTimes label <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caterina.net\/archive\/000674.html\">Abstruse Theorist<\/a>.  But <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/3732310.stm\">Christopher Reeve&#8217;s death<\/a> hits home on a much more personal note.<\/p>\n<p>I broke my neck only months before Reeve broke his in 1995.  Our injuries are very similar, only a calcium deposit in my spinal chord from an earlier gymnastics accident prevented my destiny from looking like his.  Every time a doctor looks at my chart, they are stunned that i am walking.  I am very lucky and very thankful.  Every time i see Reeve, i am humbled.<\/p>\n<p>I lose vision and hearing often and have ongoing chronic pain.  Still, this is nothing compared to Reeve&#8217;s story.  Yet, i have always held onto the dream that through his celebrity, research would continue and there would one day be a cure that will stop the deterioration of my neck.  When Kerry referred to Reeve in his answer on stem-cells, i couldn&#8217;t help but get teary-eyed.  Reeve has been an icon for my quiet struggle.  I just hope to god that, in his memory, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apacure.com\/\">the fight will go on<\/a>.  I am sad to see my Superman depart this earth and i hope that he is dancing in the heavens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am stunned. When Derrida died today, i chuckled at the NYTimes label Abstruse Theorist. But Christopher Reeve&#8217;s death hits home on a much more personal note. I broke my neck only months before Reeve broke his in 1995. Our injuries are very similar, only a calcium deposit in my spinal chord from an earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}