{"id":21128,"date":"2010-08-06T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/joyce_king_midlife_suicides_a_societal_blind_spot\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T15:45:34","slug":"joyce_king_midlife_suicides_a_societal_blind_spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21128","title":{"rendered":"Joyce King&#8211;Midlife suicides: a societal blind spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days before I was to celebrate another middle-age birthday, I heard on the news that the mayor of an affluent suburb here had killed her 19-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself. Authorities believe 55-year-old Jayne Peters \u201d\u201d mayor of Coppell, Texas\u201d\u201d might have planned the murder-suicide based on notes found at her home.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers are taking a long look at numbers showing that middle-age adults (45-54) \u201d\u201d like Peters \u201d\u201d have the highest suicide rate in the nation for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Why? In general, researchers see a broad range of factors&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/opinion\/forum\/2010-08-06-column06_ST2_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just days before I was to celebrate another middle-age birthday, I heard on the news that the mayor of an affluent suburb here had killed her 19-year-old daughter before turning the gun on herself. Authorities believe 55-year-old Jayne Peters \u201d\u201d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21128\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,104,136,129,603],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine","category-middle-age","category-psychology","category-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}