{"id":373222,"date":"2010-02-25T17:49:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23356"},"modified":"2010-02-25T17:49:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:49:32","slug":"keith-olbermann-%e2%80%98my-father-asked-me-to-kill-him%e2%80%99-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/373222","title":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann: \u2018My Father Asked Me To Kill Him\u2019 (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Shea writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/02\/24\/keith-olbermanns-emotiona_n_475973.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Last Friday night, my father asked me to kill him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Keith Olbermann opened his emotional Special Comment on health care Wednesday with the story of his father&#8217;s six-month-long hospitalization suffering through a colon removal, pneumonia, kidney failure, liver failure, and many infections.<\/p>\n<p>After a particularly difficult week, Olbermann said he went into his father&#8217;s hospital room to find him &#8220;thrashing his head back and forth&#8221; and mouthing the word &#8220;Help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was just too much for my father,&#8221; Olbermann said. &#8220;&#8216;Stop this,&#8217; he mouths. &#8216;Stop, stop, stop.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Olbermann said he resorted to gallows humor, asking his father, &#8220;What, you want me to smother you with a pillow?&#8221; And his father responded, mouthing, &#8220;Yes, kill me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Shea writes on Huffington Post: &#8220;Last Friday night, my father asked me to kill him.&#8221; Keith Olbermann opened his emotional Special Comment on health care Wednesday with the story of his father&#8217;s six-month-long hospitalization suffering through a colon removal, pneumonia, kidney failure, liver failure, and many infections. After a particularly difficult week, Olbermann said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}