{"id":1141,"date":"2008-12-03T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2008-12-03T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T16:30:35","slug":"back-from-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Back From the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday night we had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner at Dahlia and Joel’s.\u00a0 Later that night after we dropped him at home Jack, my father-in-law, had a major heart attack.\u00a0 Fortunately Eva called 911 and double fortune they lived close enough to Huntington Hospital that he was saved.\u00a0 Yesterday he came home from the hospital and except for the residual scare it appears that all of our lives are going to return to normal.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago I wrote on these pages about Preparedness<\/strong>.<\/a> I’d like to add to that list: Live near your family.\u00a0 Without willing and able family or community nearby getting old is a daunting prospect.<\/p>\n

Welcome home Jack.\u00a0 We will help all we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday night we had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner at Dahlia and Joel’s.\u00a0 Later that night after we dropped him at home Jack, my father-in-law, had a major heart attack.\u00a0 Fortunately Eva called 911 and double fortune they lived close enough to Huntington Hospital that he was saved.\u00a0 Yesterday he came home from the hospital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-ip","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}