{"id":30533,"date":"2019-10-07T19:45:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30533"},"modified":"2019-10-07T19:45:47","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:45:47","slug":"briefly-suicide-reminds-me-that-we-dont-always-know-other-peoples-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30533","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: Suicide reminds me that we don\u2019t always know other people\u2019s issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Gender-confusion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30534\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Gender-confusion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Gender-confusion.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Gender-confusion-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found out this evening that someone I casually knew killed himself last Wednesday. I didn\u2019t know him well \u2014 and I never found him personable \u2014 but he had started work a couple of months ago\u00a0at a restaurant where I go. He was a 26-year-old who struck me as a confused and unhappy person, but I didn\u2019t think much about it since he stayed to himself and resisted my efforts to chat with him. It turns out that he had a history of depression and had a lot of gender confusion. He seemed very androgynous to me and I learned today that he presented himself as female in some situations. He was rejected by a romantic interest last week, so he went to the woods and killed himself. His body wasn\u2019t found for three days. It\u2019s tragic how miserable people around us can be and how we so rarely know the truth about things they struggle with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out this evening that someone I casually knew killed himself last Wednesday. I didn\u2019t know him well \u2014 and I never found him personable \u2014 but he had started work a couple of months ago\u00a0at a restaurant where I go. He was a 26-year-old who struck me as a confused and unhappy person, <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=30533\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7Wt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30536,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30533\/revisions\/30536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}