{"id":683,"date":"2003-07-16T11:09:31","date_gmt":"2003-07-16T15:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2003-07-16T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2003-07-16T15:09:31","slug":"napster-wont-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Napster won&#8217;t do this"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of insurance horror stories doing the rounds at the moment from America. One concerns a programmer friend of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradchoate.com\/past\/hire_ron_and_win.php\">Brad Choate&#8217;s,<\/a> whose child has an expensive cancer which will go untreated if his father cannot find a job with medical insurance &#8212; Choate is the man responsible for all the pretty smart quotes on this and a million other MT blogs.<\/p>\n\n<p>The other, I discovered ten days back, is a Texan singer\/songwriter named Alejandro Escovedo, who has Hep C, cirrhosis,  and no medical insurance. I ordered one of his CDs from Amazon, because I&#8217;m a sucker for the stuff that&#8217;s now known as Americana. It just came htis morning. I urge you all to save this man&#8217;s liver and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=music&amp;field-keywords=alejandro.escovedo&amp;bq=1\/ref=sr_aps_all\/026-8566643-9214803\">buy some for your own collections<\/a>. I&#8217;m just listening to a completely wonderful version of &#8220;Sway&#8221;, for younger readers, a song by the Rolling Stones, a popular singing group, which manages to invest it with all the poisonous melancholy that the lyrics deserve by adding a cello and a violin. I&#8217;m not sure that &#8220;completely wonderful&#8221; and &#8220;poisonous melancholy&#8221; fit well in the same sentence. But this is impressive stuff. And maybe with a new liver he&#8217;ll write some happy songs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a couple of insurance horror stories doing the rounds at the moment from America. One concerns a programmer friend of Brad Choate&#8217;s, whose child has an expensive cancer which will go untreated if his father cannot find a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=683\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}