{"id":1125,"date":"2007-08-28T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T19:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2007-08-28T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T19:48:20","slug":"its-a-miracle-not-a-pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1125","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a miracle, not a pension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Times of India<\/em> had the excellent idea of <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Mothers_miracle_woman_in_poverty\/articleshow\/2316373.cms\">finding out what happened<\/a> to the woman who was meant to have been miraculously cured by a miracle blessed by Mother Teresa. There are, or course, disputes about the cure. Medical science suggests that she was suffering from <span class=\"caps\">TB, <\/span>rather than stomach cancer, and that she was cured by drugs rather than the unaided efforts of the Holy Spirit. In any case, Monica Besra was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,501021021-364433,00.html\">briefly famous<\/a> and then the world moved on.<\/p>\n\n<p>Now she appears to have been left by her husband, a grumpy figure in the background of earlier stories, and is working as a day labourer to feed her five children. Neither I nor Christopher Hitchens, nor anyone from the Missionaries of Charity, have given her any money, or enough to lift her for a little while from poverty. I, at least, feel rather guilty about this, without having any clear idea what might be done about it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times of India had the excellent idea of finding out what happened to the woman who was meant to have been miraculously cured by a miracle blessed by Mother Teresa. There are, or course, disputes about the cure. Medical &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1125\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}