{"id":9607,"date":"2013-11-28T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T23:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=9607"},"modified":"2013-11-28T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T23:03:38","slug":"november-28-2013-thanksgiving-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=9607","title":{"rendered":"November 28, 2013 Thanksgiving gratitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I went and visited my ex today. She is doing well and she appreciated my visit. We had a nice little chat together.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow the conversation made its way to my pancreas surgery. The cyst was discovered back in January when I had pain from kidney stones and they took a scan. On that day I was not even certain I would live to see this Thanksgiving as pancreatic cancer is quite deadly and rather fast-moving. But here I am, grateful for God\u2019s blessings.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly I lost my grandmother this year. But my mother and sister are still doing well. I was able to visit them both two weeks ago when the weather was good for traveling. I\u2019m grateful for the opportunity I had to go see them once more before the year was out.<\/p>\n<p>As I sit here at my computer desk I realize I have much to be thankful for. In many ways it was a challenging year. But I know there are many who are worse off than I am, including those who have gone though Mother Nature\u2019s fury this year. Floods and typhoons have struck\u2026 and yet here I am, high and dry with a roof over my head and food in my belly.<\/p>\n<p>So this year Thanksgiving is kind of special to me. And I hope you can find a way to make it special for you as well. Thanks for stopping by. Take care and God bless\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I went and visited my ex today. She is doing well and she appreciated my visit. We had a nice little chat together. Somehow the conversation made its way to my pancreas surgery. The cyst was discovered back in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/?p=9607\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9609,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions\/9609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riwaslibrary.com\/story\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}