{"id":672,"date":"2006-08-01T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T13:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/08\/01\/i-do-feel-sympathy\/"},"modified":"2006-08-01T09:55:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T13:55:59","slug":"i-do-feel-sympathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/08\/01\/i-do-feel-sympathy\/","title":{"rendered":"I Do Feel Sympathy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but come on!<\/p>\n<p>Who the hell in their right mind would be vain enough to allow a man to perform costmetic surgery on themselves&#8230;in a basement&#8230;on a freaking massage table&#8230;next to the washer and dryer?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, it&#8217;s tragic what happened. It shouldn&#8217;t have happened. And I&#8217;ll be very curious to find out what type of 30-day work visa the Brazilian man could possibly have received from the U.S. government (I&#8217;m guessing it wasn&#8217;t to peform illegal and unlicensed surgeries in somebody&#8217;s condominium basement). But I wouldn&#8217;t let a person pierce my ear in such an environment &#8211; let alone perform a surgical procedure.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you out-of-state readers (yes, I have a few), a Brazilian doctor has apparently come to Framingham, Massachusetts periodically for the past few years and performed illegal plastic surgeries (nose jobs, liposuction, botox, breast augmentation, lip enhancements) during each 30 day visit. Apparently, the local Brazilian community lines up at the door for his services (there were four waiting when this 24year old patient was rushed to the hospital and died this week).<\/p>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n<p>In other local news &#8211; it appears we&#8217;re to expect the hottest weather in years (possibly decades) over the next two days. By tomorrow the temperature could exceed 100 degrees and, with the humidity, it will feel like 114-117 degrees. Of course, this bit of news is also for my out-of-state readers. The local readers are already aware and are ready to kill me for reminding them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but come on! Who the hell in their right mind would be vain enough to allow a man to perform costmetic surgery on themselves&#8230;in a basement&#8230;on a freaking massage table&#8230;next to the washer and dryer? I mean, it&#8217;s tragic what happened. It shouldn&#8217;t have happened. And I&#8217;ll be very curious to find out what type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}