{"id":3823,"date":"2011-07-24T21:59:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T04:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=3823"},"modified":"2011-07-24T21:59:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T04:59:28","slug":"sometimes-humanity-surprises-me-into-believing-in-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/24\/sometimes-humanity-surprises-me-into-believing-in-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes Humanity Surprises Me Into Believing In It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/pics\/comments\/iwkkx\/this_is_called_humanity\/\">reddit<\/a> and wanted to reshare, but it was too long to tweet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-13598607\">Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3824\" title=\"Yasuteru Yamada\" src=\"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yasuteru-yamada.jpg\" alt=\"Yasuteru Yamada\" width=\"448\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yasuteru-yamada.jpg 448w, https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/yasuteru-yamada-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I am 72 and on average I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years or longer to develop. Therefore us older ones have less chance of getting cancer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone in the comments posted:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.<\/p>\n<p>A society falls when old men cut down trees whose shade they know they&#8217;re not going to need any more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which someone replied to the 2nd saying with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Welcome to the United States<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw this on reddit and wanted to reshare, but it was too long to tweet: Japan pensioners volunteer to tackle nuclear crisis &#8220;I am 72 and on average I probably have 13 to 15 years left to live,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Even if I were exposed to radiation, cancer could take 20 or 30 years or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/24\/sometimes-humanity-surprises-me-into-believing-in-it-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sometimes Humanity Surprises Me Into Believing In It Again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}