{"id":1022,"date":"2021-04-19T05:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2025-09-29T05:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:36:24","slug":"very-sad-news-nick-springer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"Very sad news &#8211; Nick Springer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202788024445f200d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nick springer\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202788024445f200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202788024445f200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Nick springer\"><\/a><em><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: Nick Springer and his family were parishioners of my church when he contracted meningitis.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick Springer was a 14 year old when in 1999 he contracted meningitis. A heroic story &#8211; among other accomplishments, two time medal winner in the Paralympics. Well worth reading this entire short tribute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t2conline.com\/two-time-paralympic-medalist-nick-springer-has-gone-to-play-with-the-angels\/\">Two-Time Paralympic Medalist, Nick Springer Has Gone to Play With The Angels<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick Springer was a Two-Time Paralympic Medalist, who died suddenly on Wednesday, April 14th. He was a man who lived with an incredible zest for life making sure that every moment counted and was an inspiration to a global community. After contracting Meningococcal Meningitis at age 14, Nick endured the amputation of both legs above the knees and both arms mid-forearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Nick Springer and his family were parishioners of my church when he contracted meningitis. Nick Springer was a 14 year old when in 1999 he contracted meningitis. A heroic story &#8211; among other accomplishments, two time medal winner in the Paralympics. Well worth reading this entire short tribute. Two-Time Paralympic Medalist, Nick Springer Has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12747,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/12747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}