{"id":48798,"date":"2015-03-11T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/former_baltimore_ravens_linebacker_o-j-_brigance_leads_opposition_to_assist\/"},"modified":"2015-03-11T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:44:15","slug":"former_baltimore_ravens_linebacker_o-j-_brigance_leads_opposition_to_assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48798","title":{"rendered":"(Former Baltimore Ravens Linebacker) O.J. Brigance leads opposition to assisted-suicide bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although he is largely incapacitated and can\u2019t speak without the aid of a computerized voice, O.J. Brigance believes his life has value.<\/p>\n<p>It was a message of hope the former Baltimore Ravens linebacker hammered home when he came out strongly against the proposed legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day, every hour, every minute, every second of life, is God-given and valuable,\u201d\u009d Brigance told members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee during a March 10 hearing on the Death with Dignity Act. \u201cTo enact this legislation would devalue the lives and possible future contributions of Marylanders.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicreview.org\/article\/news\/local-news\/o-j-brigance-leads-opposition-to-assisted-suicide-bill\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although he is largely incapacitated and can\u2019t speak without the aid of a computerized voice, O.J. Brigance believes his life has value. It was a message of hope the former Baltimore Ravens linebacker hammered home when he came out strongly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48798\">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":[48,39,40,175,438,168,104,114,96,184,151,108,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48798","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=48798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}