{"id":1749,"date":"2008-05-20T23:50:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-05-21T01:30:39","modified_gmt":"2008-05-21T01:30:39","slug":"ted_kennedy_ore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"Ted Kennedy & Orestes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read the story of this family – of greatness, human failure, tragedy – as though Euripides got to write his grand, tragic take on American history. Spare me the reflexive disdain – and the reflexive hagiography – for him, his brothers and his parents. But it would be out of his family’s character somehow for him to come to his end quietly and without suffering.<\/p>\n

I’m sorry for him – I can only imagine the horror at a diagnosis like this – and for his family, whose love I hope will comfort him.<\/p>\n

He may not have been the greatest Senator we’ve had in the nation, but he has been a notable one, and he has dedicated his life to service. So here’s an appreciation of him, and a thank you from me and my family.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/b> For a very human response and a crushing personal story, go see Steve Smith’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read the story of this family – of greatness, human failure, tragedy – as though Euripides got to write his grand, tragic take on American history. Spare me the reflexive disdain – and the reflexive hagiography – for him, his brothers and his parents. But it would be out of his family’s character somehow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}