{"id":4325,"date":"2018-12-19T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T15:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=4325"},"modified":"2018-12-19T15:41:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T15:41:49","slug":"daniel-ortberg-top-surgery-was-the-best-6250-i-ever-spent-vox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/19\/daniel-ortberg-top-surgery-was-the-best-6250-i-ever-spent-vox\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ortberg: Top surgery was the best $6,250 I ever spent &#8211; Vox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-goods\/2018\/12\/18\/18141006\/daniel-ortberg-essay-top-surgery\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/T_Shirt__1_.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daniel (n\u00e9e Mallory) Ortberg &lt;3 :<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"ZN8Inv\">There\u2019s something truly wonderful about referring to a procedure as specific as a bilateral mastectomy with a term as blandly ominous as\u00a0<em>top surgery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"eBjAXv\">Is it serious, doc? &#8220;<em>Yeah, son. I\u2019m afraid there\u2019s nothing to do but schedule you for top surgery.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"qz9Dxb\">What parts of me will be affected, doc? &#8220;<em>The top<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"JlM1f7\">What are you gonna do to the top of me? &#8220;<em>Surgery<\/em>.\u00a0<em>We\u2019re going in and we\u2019re gonna have to Surger your Top.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"4looTv\">\u201cJust get rid of the whole thing, doctor,\u201d I imagined myself saying generously, swinging my legs from the examination table. \u201cTake the whole top off. I want my neighbors to have a clear view to the sea. Give it away to the deserving poor, who may have no top to speak of. I\u2019ll get by just fine with a bottom and a middle. No top for me \u2014 I\u2019ll get by.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-goods\/2018\/12\/18\/18141006\/daniel-ortberg-essay-top-surgery\">Daniel Ortberg: Top surgery was the best $6,250 I ever spent &#8211; Vox<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel (n\u00e9e Mallory) Ortberg &lt;3 : There\u2019s something truly wonderful about referring to a procedure as specific as a bilateral mastectomy with a term as blandly ominous as\u00a0top surgery. Is it serious, doc? &#8220;Yeah, son. I\u2019m afraid there\u2019s nothing to do but schedule you for top surgery.&#8221; What parts of me will be affected, doc? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-17L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4327,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4325\/revisions\/4327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}