{"id":1324,"date":"2004-12-13T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/finger_or_ring\/"},"modified":"2004-12-13T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:23:05","slug":"finger_or_ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/finger_or_ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Finger or Ring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Finger cut off to spare ring\" href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2002117523_iraqdig13.html\">Bad choice<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Marine Lance Cpl. David Battle learned he&#8217;d either have to sacrifice his ring finger or the wedding band he wore, he told doctors at a field hospital in Iraq to cut off the finger.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nDoctors were preparing to cut off Battle&#8217;s ring to save as much of his finger as they could.<br \/>\n&#8220;But that would mean destroying my wedding ring,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My wife is the strongest woman I know. She&#8217;s basically running two people&#8217;s lives since I&#8217;ve been gone.&#8221;<br \/>\nWith his approval, doctors severed his finger, but in the chaos that followed, they lost his ring.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that had he gone with saving the finger, it probably won&#8217;t have been misplaced on the way home.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not married, so perhaps I&#8217;m not the best judge of this, but isn&#8217;t replacing a wedding ring a lot easier than replacing a finger?  Even when you factor in sentimental value?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/12\/finger_or_ring\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Finger or Ring?\"><p>Bad choice: When Marine Lance Cpl. David Battle learned he&#8217;d either have to sacrifice his ring finger or the wedding band he wore, he told doctors at a field hospital in Iraq to cut off the finger. . . . Doctors were preparing to cut off Battle&#8217;s ring to save as much of his finger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}