{"id":36,"date":"2006-02-06T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/2006\/02\/lets-face-it-transplant-or-no.html"},"modified":"2006-02-06T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T17:10:00","slug":"lets-face-it-transplant-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/2006\/02\/lets-face-it-transplant-or-no.html","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s face it, transplant or no&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/t1.transplant.mon1.ap-749743.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/t1.transplant.mon1.ap-745303.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>&#8220;I now have a face like everyone else,&#8221; she told reporters Monday&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>Photos making the rounds today would seem to cast that into some doubt. <\/p>\n<p>But whereas the discussion a couple months ago centered on the transplant operation, there&#8217;s no turning away now: this is her face. I dont think we can look at a person and not see their face as their face. This changes things. An organ transplant is, well, just that. But a face, as personal as it is, being the primary organ of personality, belongs on whomever wears it. It&#8217;s like, what was your hair like before? Now that you have a new haircut, I don&#8217;t seem to remember&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle Dinoire deserves to be left alone now.  Let the debate continue among cultural critics and ethicists. She&#8217;s going to have to put on a smile for the rest of her life and she deserves recognition of what that means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I now have a face like everyone else,&#8221; she told reporters Monday&#8230; Photos making the rounds today would seem to cast that into some doubt. But whereas the discussion a couple months ago centered on the transplant operation, there&#8217;s no turning away now: this is her face. I dont think we can look at a person and not see their face as their face. This changes things. An organ transplant is, well, just that. But a face, as personal as it is, being the primary organ of personality, belongs on whomever wears it. It&#8217;s like, what was your hair like before? Now that you have a new haircut, I don&#8217;t seem to remember&#8230; Isabelle Dinoire deserves to be left alone now. Let the debate continue among cultural critics and ethicists. She&#8217;s going to have to put on a smile for the rest of her life and she deserves recognition of what that means.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}