{"id":1160,"date":"2020-01-01T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2020-01-01T14:40:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T22:40:27","slug":"whats-so-wrong-with-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/whats-so-wrong-with-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s So Wrong With Suicide?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Track-1-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I once saw a cartoon in M.A.D. magazine where a fellow is standing on a dock watching a dollar bill with wings fly away from him as a symbol of his lost wealth. He ties a ball and chain on his leg and jumps into the sea. On the bottom, he lands next to a treasure chest bursting with gold and jewels. The title of the cartoon was &#8220;Look Before You Leap&#8221;. That&#8217;s the inspiration for this song. I&#8217;ve never truly been suicidal, but like most everyone, I&#8217;ve known severe depression at times. But, it always passes and life gets worth living again. Still, I began to wonder, what happens if you succumb to the darkness and then change your mind after it is too late? Consider this a cautionary tale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded in the early 1970s on cassette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once saw a cartoon in M.A.D. magazine where a fellow is standing on a dock watching a dollar bill with wings fly away from him as a symbol of his lost wealth. He ties a ball and chain on his leg and jumps into the sea. On the bottom, he lands next to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-compositions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-iI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}