{"id":27717,"date":"2011-08-08T21:08:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cns_new_york_dominican_community_lavishes_care_on_the_terminally_ill\/"},"modified":"2011-08-08T21:08:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T21:08:57","slug":"cns_new_york_dominican_community_lavishes_care_on_the_terminally_ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27717","title":{"rendered":"(CNS) New York Dominican community lavishes care on the terminally ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you have to be terminal, this is the place to come,&#8221; said Harriet Boyle, as the sun poured into her room through huge windows.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in a bed with floral sheets and a patterned comforter, the grandmother with the carefully applied makeup put down her large-print book and described life at Rosary Hill Home, a free palliative care facility run by the Dominican Sisters Congregation of St. Rose of Lima in Hawthorne, north of New York City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the most unusual place I&#8217;ve ever been. You&#8217;re not conscious of people being ill here. We all have cancer and we&#8217;re all terminal, but it&#8217;s serene and there are lots of moments of fun and laughter,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/1103124.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you have to be terminal, this is the place to come,&#8221; said Harriet Boyle, as the sun poured into her room through huge windows. Sitting in a bed with floral sheets and a patterned comforter, the grandmother with the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27717\">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":[48,39,42,438,104,154,184,177,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-death-burial-funerals","category-health-medicine","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717","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=27717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}