{"id":1728,"date":"2011-07-21T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/i-promise-one-can-only-imagine-what-its-like-susan-leavens.html"},"modified":"2011-07-21T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:47:21","slug":"i-promise-one-can-only-imagine-what-its-like-susan-leavens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/i-promise-one-can-only-imagine-what-its-like-susan-leavens.html","title":{"rendered":"I promise one can only imagine what it&#8217;s like &mdash;Susan Leavens"},"content":{"rendered":"Received today on <a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/07\/because-of-my-mother-dr-noll-vlcia-19-july-2011.html\">\nBecause of my mother<\/a>. -jsq\n<blockquote>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhlbi.nih.gov\/health\/public\/lung\/copd\/what-is-copd\/how-does-copd-affect-breathing.htm\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/www.nhlbi.nih.gov\/health\/public\/lung\/copd\/images\/diagram\/healthy-vs-copd.jpg\"><\/a>\nI promise one can only imagine what it&#8217;s like to have a loved one\ndie in your arms from a chronic lung disease like COPD, when every\nbreath is a struggle and each day that passes a long and horrible death\nis the inevitable, my mother moved here with me from south Florida,\nher quality of life changed until her death from COPD in 2003. Biomass\naffects everyone, not just in the county it&#8217;s built in.\n<p>\nI personally\nhave children which I would love to see grow with strong healthy lung\nfunctions. Some children and adults already have asthma and other lung\ndisorders. I&#8217;m not quite sure of the long term effects biomass consist\nof but I am quite sure were going to be the ones that suffer in the end\neach and every one of us! It does raise my concern when Dr. Noll speaks\nabout biomass and we all might need to rethink the potential danger it\nwill bring with it. Previously I thought it was a good energy source,\nI now think otherwise. Speak now or forever hold your peace because I\nget this feeling\u2026 there sneaking in!\n<p>\n-Susan Leavens\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received today on Because of my mother. -jsq I promise one can only imagine what it&#8217;s like to have a loved one die in your arms from a chronic lung disease like COPD, when every breath is a struggle and each day that passes a long and horrible death is the inevitable, my mother moved [&hellip;]","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},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,556,120,40,41,178,1811],"tags":[8779,8738,4083,8701,876,7,4084,6,8749],"class_list":["post-1728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-air","category-biomass","category-community","category-health-care","category-vlcia","category-vlcia-19-july-2011","tag-air","tag-biomass","tag-copd","tag-georgia","tag-health","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lungs","tag-valdosta","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-rS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}