{"id":207057,"date":"2017-07-22T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/a-testament-to-the-human-impulse-to-help-one-another-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2017-07-22T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T11:43:00","slug":"a-testament-to-the-human-impulse-to-help-one-another-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/post-human\/a-testament-to-the-human-impulse-to-help-one-another-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"A testament to the human impulse to help one another &#8211; Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    July 21 at 8:00 PM  <\/p>\n<p>    I was brought to tears by the story of the human chain that    savedswimmers who were perilously close to drowning off a    Florida beach [Florida beachgoers    form a human chain to save 10 swept off by riptide,    Politics & the Nation, July 12]. Dozens of beachgoers     some of whom couldnt swim  responded to the alarm, left their    complacency behind and joined hands in a rescue effort,    endangering their own lives in the process. This remarkable and    spontaneous show of unity, this act of courage and compassion    by strangers, left me in awe.  <\/p>\n<p>    How badly is such a story needed now, when the daily headlines    are filled with the hatred and division consuming our nation.    Ill bet that human chain consisted of both Democrats and    Republicans, people of different races, religions and sexual    orientations. When disaster is at hand, these differences are    utterly irrelevant; the human impulse to help one another is as    strong as any force of nature. We should all learn from their    extraordinary spirit of cooperation.  <\/p>\n<p>    Rebecca Frank, Oakton  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/a-testament-to-the-human-impulse-to-help-one-another\/2017\/07\/21\/44905338-6c27-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_story.html\" title=\"A testament to the human impulse to help one another - Washington Post\">A testament to the human impulse to help one another - Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> July 21 at 8:00 PM I was brought to tears by the story of the human chain that savedswimmers who were perilously close to drowning off a Florida beach [Florida beachgoers form a human chain to save 10 swept off by riptide, Politics &#038; the Nation, July 12]. Dozens of beachgoers some of whom couldnt swim responded to the alarm, left their complacency behind and joined hands in a rescue effort, endangering their own lives in the process.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/post-human\/a-testament-to-the-human-impulse-to-help-one-another-washington-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-human"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}