{"id":470,"date":"2012-10-20T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T16:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/?p=470"},"modified":"2012-10-20T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T16:38:45","slug":"i-wanna-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"I Wanna Know *WHY*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steel Magnolias will go down in history, along with &#8216;It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life&#8217; and very few others, as a movie where there is a single scene that makes me cry&#8230; if not sob, each and every time I watch it. This scene, acted by Sally Field, It is so powerful and so well acted, I feel I am her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Steel-Magnolias.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-471\" title=\"Steel Magnolias\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Steel-Magnolias-300x164.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Steel-Magnolias-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Steel-Magnolias-1024x560.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Steel-Magnolias.png 1223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Of course, at the time of the movie release, I was yet to have children, and I still cried. I just could not imagine. Now, unfortunately, I can. Like MaLynne, I could jog all the way to Texas and back, but my son can&#8217;t and never could. Like MaLynne, I was left wondering WHY my son Alex had to die, it&#8217;s not supposed to happen this way!!! I wish I could understand as well, but somehow I know I will someday.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the transcript of the dialogue in the scene, and then the clip from YouTube if you&#8217;ve never seen it.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m fine, I&#8217;m fine, I&#8217;m fine, I&#8217;m FINE. I can jog all the way to Texas and back, but my daughter can&#8217;t! She never could!\u00a0Oh God! I am so mad I don&#8217;t know what to do! I wanna know why! I wanna know *why*? Lord, I wish I could understand!<\/em><br \/>\n<em> No! No! No! It&#8217;s not supposed to happen this way! I&#8217;m supposed to go first. I&#8217;ve always been ready to go first! I-I don&#8217;t think I can take this! I-I don&#8217;t think I can take this! I-I just wanna *hit* somebody &#8217;til they feel as bad as I do! I just wanna hit something! I wanna hit it hard!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/03BPiyoab10\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you do nothing else, say a kind word to a bereaved mom today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/moongirl_silvia.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-472\" title=\"moongirl_silvia\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/moongirl_silvia.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/?p=470\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"20\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"reverse_time\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steel Magnolias will go down in history, along with &lsquo;It&rsquo;s a Wonderful Life&rsquo; and very few others, as a movie where there is a single scene that makes me cry&hellip; if not sob, each and every time I watch it. This scene, acted by Sally Field, It is so powerful&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[87,86],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-sally-field","tag-steel-magnolias"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.silviaskingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}