{"id":1374,"date":"2008-11-20T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2008-11-19T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T21:30:40","slug":"prison-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/prison-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prison inmate somehow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2008\/11\/18\/national\/a090551S30.DTL&amp;tsp=1\" target=\"_blank\">contracted a flesh eating bacteria<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;that required doctors to remove several pounds of flesh from his pelvic region. \u00c2\u00a0Surgeons made a replacement penis with skin from his thigh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, well then. \u00c2\u00a0A replacement penis. \u00c2\u00a0With spare penis skin that was on his leg. \u00c2\u00a0We all have that, of course. \u00c2\u00a0Sure, that&#8217;s exactly the same as it was before, no doubt. \u00c2\u00a0He sued the state and got a settlement which could never be enough, I would imagine. \u00c2\u00a0Still I suppose he could be dead.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This poor bugger (unfortunate choice of words, perhaps) will never get a leg up in life, that much seems certain.<\/p>\n<p>The take-away mental note from this story: \u00c2\u00a0be good, because prison is very very very bad.<\/p>\n<p>Saw this on Boing Boing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prison inmate somehow contracted a flesh eating bacteria&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;that required doctors to remove several pounds of flesh from his pelvic region. \u00c2\u00a0Surgeons made a replacement penis with skin from his thigh.&#8221; Oh, well then. \u00c2\u00a0A replacement penis. \u00c2\u00a0With spare &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/20\/prison-blues\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-ma","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}