{"id":22028,"date":"2012-11-05T06:29:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=22028"},"modified":"2012-11-05T06:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T11:32:13","slug":"im-a-nurse-how-much-do-i-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/im-a-nurse-how-much-do-i-make\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Nurse: How much do I make?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody asked: &#8220;You&#8217;re a nurse? That&#8217;s cool, I wanted to do that when I was a kid. How much do you make?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HOW MUCH DO I MAKE?\u00a0\u00a0I can make holding your hand seem like the most important thing in the world when you&#8217;re scared. &#8230; I can make your child breathe when they stop. &#8230; I can help your father survive a heart attack. &#8230; I can make myself get up at 5 a.m. to make sure your mother has the medicine she needs to live. &#8230; I work all day to save the lives of strangers. &#8230; I make my family wait for dinner until I know your family member is taken care of. &#8230; I make myself skip lunch so that I can make sure that everything I did for your wife today is charted. &#8230; I make myself work weekends and holidays because people don&#8217;t just get sick Monday thru Friday. &#8230; Today, I might save your life. &#8230; \u00a0How much do I make? All I know is, I make a difference. &#8220;<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/im-a-nurse-how-much-do-i-make\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=I&#8217;m a Nurse: How much do I make?&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/im-a-nurse-how-much-do-i-make\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/im-a-nurse-how-much-do-i-make\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/im-a-nurse-how-much-do-i-make\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=I&#8217;m%20a%20Nurse:%20How%20much%20do%20I%20make?&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/im-a-nurse-how-much-do-i-make\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody asked: &#8220;You&#8217;re a nurse? That&#8217;s cool, I wanted to do that when I was a kid. How much do you make?&#8221; &#8220;HOW MUCH DO I MAKE?\u00a0\u00a0I can make holding your hand seem like the most important thing in the world when you&#8217;re scared. &#8230; I can make your child breathe when they stop. &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22028"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22034,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22028\/revisions\/22034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}