{"id":760,"date":"2008-03-17T15:23:43","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=760"},"modified":"2008-03-17T15:23:43","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:23:43","slug":"teenage-suicide-dont-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Suicide &#8230; Don&#8217;t Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that explosion of teenagers offing themselves? Uh, like, <a href=\"http:\/\/agoraphilia.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/do-teens-commit-suicide-more-often.html\">no<\/a>.  Suicide rates peak for people in their 80&#8217;s &#8212; when people are old enough to have lived their lives but not so old they can&#8217;t work a gun any longer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m actually surprised as my only suicidal thoughts were during high school.  Any teen killing himself is a tragedy, obviously, and the problem is not to be taken lightly.  It&#8217;s not just tragic, it&#8217;s stupid.  High school was the worst period of my life.  But I&#8217;ve had so many wonderful experiences since then (one of whom is grabbing at my arm while I type this).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that explosion of teenagers offing themselves? Uh, like, no. Suicide rates peak for people in their 80&#8217;s &#8212; when people are old enough to have lived their lives but not so old they can&#8217;t work a gun any longer. I&#8217;m actually surprised as my only suicidal thoughts were during high school. Any teen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=760\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teenage Suicide &#8230; Don&#8217;t Do It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-cg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}