{"id":11243,"date":"2008-07-23T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/23\/men-or-mice"},"modified":"2008-07-23T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T18:07:00","slug":"men-or-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/23\/men-or-mice\/","title":{"rendered":"Men or Mice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the value of human life?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would rather one random man die than a poor little mouse.&#8221; My co-worker explained her flowing tears and frantic running about the room after finding a &#8220;baby&#8221; mouse with broken leg struggling on a glue trap in the group room.<\/p>\n<p>Just days before she had cursed the mouse who left it&#8217;s droppings and ate group snacks.<\/p>\n<p>This same mouse that could drive an otherwise opinionatedly strong woman to stand on a chair screaming and flailing her arms as the preschoolers looked on calmly.<\/p>\n<p>Two of us stood there watching &#8211; me with bare toes a few feet from the whiskered one.<br \/>And three screamed, climbed on furniture, and otherwise convinced the six children that the world was ending.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I just found the whole situation odd. That&#8217;s all.<br \/>Overwhelmingly odd. &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the value of human life? &#8220;I would rather one random man die than a poor little mouse.&#8221; My co-worker explained her flowing tears and frantic running about the room after finding a &#8220;baby&#8221; mouse with broken leg struggling on a glue trap in the group room. Just days before she had cursed the&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2008\/07\/23\/men-or-mice\/#more-11243\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}