{"id":48893,"date":"2015-03-17T20:30:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_editorial-stop_babies_from_south_carolina_shame\/"},"modified":"2015-03-17T20:30:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T20:30:40","slug":"local_paper_editorial-stop_babies_from_south_carolina_shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48893","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper Editorial&#8211;Stop babies from South Carolina shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appallingly high infant mortality rates persist in eight South Carolina counties. Among the awful numbers that fully warrant the \u201cCradle of Shame\u201d\u009d title of a Post and Courier series concluding in today\u2019s paper:<\/p>\n<p>On average, more than 200 newborns have died in those counties during each of the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2000, 6,696 babies in South Carolina have died before their first birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Eight of our state\u2019s 46 counties lack an obstetrician.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150315\/PC1002\/150319545\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appallingly high infant mortality rates persist in eight South Carolina counties. Among the awful numbers that fully warrant the \u201cCradle of Shame\u201d\u009d title of a Post and Courier series concluding in today\u2019s paper: On average, more than 200 newborns have<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48893\">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":[39,40,54,175,101,168,104,98,177,151,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48893","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=48893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}