{"id":203511,"date":"2021-06-14T21:37:59","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/?p=272579"},"modified":"2021-06-14T21:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:37:59","slug":"death-is-a-lot-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/14\/death-is-a-lot-of-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Death is a lot of work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Spotify Embed: Death is a lot of work\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4YlXYr8WdeP3YlY5cCNiUv?si=b0e7df13b6614fb5\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While Max is traveling for The Real News Network, \u201cWorking People\u201d producer Jules Taylor makes his host debut by interviewing his stepfather Ric Ortiz about his career as a death investigator and paramedic. In a way, it feels like Ric was meant to work around death\u2014he grew up across the street from a cemetery and his first job involved assisting a local gravedigger before he was 10 years old. He would go on to work as the chief medical investigator for Nueces County, Texas, for 20 years. In this special episode, Jules speaks with Ric about the events in his life that shaped his career path, and they discuss how working around death influences the way one sees the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional<\/strong> <strong>links\/info<\/strong> <strong>below&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Ric Ortiz on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ricortiz5\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ric.ortiz.77\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>Fares Sabawi, <em>Corpus Christi Caller Times<\/em>, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.caller.com\/story\/news\/local\/2016\/02\/29\/chief-forensic-investigator-retires-after-20-years\/91349028\/\"><strong>Chief Forensic Investigator Retires After 20 Years<\/strong><\/a>\u201d<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/app.ntsb.gov\/pdfgenerator\/ReportGeneratorFile.ashx?EventID=20001211X10290&amp;AKey=1&amp;RType=HTML&amp;IType=FA\"><strong>National Transportation Safety Board Aviation Accident Final Repor<\/strong>t<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Featured<\/strong> <strong>Music<\/strong> <strong>(all<\/strong> <strong>songs<\/strong> <strong>sourced<\/strong> <strong>from<\/strong> <strong>the<\/strong> <strong>Free<\/strong> <strong>Music<\/strong> <strong>Archive:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/\"><strong>freemusicarchive.org<\/strong><\/a><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Jules Taylor, &#8220;<em>Working People<\/em> Theme Song&#8221;<\/li><li>Talons, \u201cToms\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/death-is-a-lot-of-work\">Death is a lot of work<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/death-is-a-lot-of-work\">The Real News Network<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From being a gravedigger\u2019s assistant as a child to working as chief medical investigator for Nueces County, Texas, Ric Ortiz has always lived and worked in close proximity to death.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/death-is-a-lot-of-work\">Death is a lot of work<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/\">The Real News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5942,5578],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203512,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203511\/revisions\/203512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}