{"id":4772,"date":"2006-01-09T23:39:16","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T23:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:41:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:41:04","slug":"thanks_to_one_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4772","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to one and all for the prayers and good wishes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I have received many lovely notes, emails, and face to face sentiments, which are greatly appreciated by everyone in my family.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">My good friend all-the-way-back-to-college Dennis Cannon sent me an email in which he said \u201c<span style=\"COLOR: black\">I&#8217;d like to call it an adventure, because I think you kind of see it as a unique challenge. Like climbing Everest.\u201d And my friend Paul Dinter said after Mass yesterday&nbsp; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">\u201cYou are off on your chemically assisted Retreat.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I thought those were pretty accurate ways of putting things (although climbing Everest \u2013 I don\u2019t know that\u2019s a heck of a high mountain!). I\u2019ve got a bunch of books, internet access, some time on my hands, and I hope to be able to put it to good use. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">&gt;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">If you&#8217;re given an lemon, make lemonade.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have received many lovely notes, emails, and face to face sentiments, which are greatly appreciated by everyone in my family. My good friend all-the-way-back-to-college Dennis Cannon sent me an email in which he said \u201cI&#8217;d like to call it an adventure, because I think you kind of see it as a unique challenge. Like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","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=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9831,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions\/9831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}