{"id":7264,"date":"2004-04-11T12:22:47","date_gmt":"2004-04-11T17:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2004\/04\/11\/judge-richard-c-casey\/"},"modified":"2004-04-11T12:22:47","modified_gmt":"2004-04-11T17:22:47","slug":"judge-richard-c-casey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2004\/04\/judge-richard-c-casey\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Richard C. Casey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/wire\/ny-bc-ny--abortionlawsuit-j0411apr11,0,6281374.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire\">background article on<\/a> Richard C. Casey the judge currently hearing a case on a challenge  to the partial birth abortion ban in New York.  In 1964 Judge Casey was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a disease that slowly eroded his sight until he lost it entirely in 1987.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">In an interview several years ago, Casey explained how he overcame his initial anger and frustration at being blind through perseverance that included help from friends, strangers and a trip to the Catholic shrine of Lourdes in southern France. <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">There, he was told about a girl who went to Lourdes hoping to receive the miracle of sight, which never occurred. Still, she was later buried there with a tombstone inscribed, &#8220;What is important is not to see, but to understand.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;It changed me how I approach things,&#8221; Casey said. &#8220;Anybody can have a spiritual miracle. I was going through a tough time in my life. I stopped saying, `Why me God?&#8217; and started saying, `Why not me?&#8221;&#8216; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting background article on Richard C. Casey the judge currently hearing a case on a challenge to the partial birth abortion ban in New York. In 1964 Judge Casey was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}