{"id":879,"date":"2012-07-17T03:41:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T03:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=879"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:05:40","slug":"the-boy-who-wanted-to-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"The Boy Who Wanted to Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times;\u00a0 By <a title=\"More Articles by MAUREEN DOWD\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/opinion\/editorialsandoped\/oped\/columnists\/maureendowd\/index.html\">MAUREEN DOWD<\/a>;\u00a0 Published: July 14, 2012.\u00a0\u00a0RORY STAUNTON was always looking up. \u00a0As soon as he could walk, he wanted to fly. The exuberant freckle-faced redhead from Sunnyside, Queens, yearned to be up in the romantic night sky where, as the French pilot and poet Antoine de Saint-Exup\u00e9ry wrote, the stars are laughing. &#8230;. \u00a0Rory was so roaring with life, it was impossible to believe how quickly life drained out of him. On Wednesday, March 28, he fell while playing in the school gym and scraped his elbow, opening a cut. As Dr. Jerome Groopman wrote in The New Yorker in 2008, the most aggressive superbug bacteria often lurk in gyms and on artificial turf. \u00a0The following Sunday, Rory died of septic shock from a strep infection, his parents curled around his body in the hospital bed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/15\/opinion\/sunday\/dowd-the-boy-who-wanted-to-fly.html?_r=2&amp;src=me&amp;ref=general\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times;\u00a0 By MAUREEN DOWD;\u00a0 Published: July 14, 2012.\u00a0\u00a0RORY STAUNTON was always looking up. \u00a0As soon as he could walk, he wanted to fly. The exuberant freckle-faced redhead <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=879\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[81,360,361,362],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-medical-error","tag-rory-staunton","tag-sepsis","tag-strep-infection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}