{"id":47,"date":"2023-05-19T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris2\/?p=47"},"modified":"2023-05-26T22:20:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T02:20:23","slug":"rejoice-for-the-joys-of-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/2023\/05\/19\/rejoice-for-the-joys-of-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejoice for the joys of today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear loved ones,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We rejoice for the joys of today and give praise to the Lord for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prayers with friends, a packed lunch by a friend due to all the movement during the day, a normal day of school for the kids (normal feels like a gift), news that the brain MRI is ALL CLEAR, a special time with friends who may not be here when we return, the joy on Emalene&#8217;s face when she realized we will be in the US to see snow this coming December, friends that make us laugh, friends doing school pick ups\/medical appointments, and the relief that Chris was given the slides and tissue biopsy that he will bring with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We give to the Lord our new concerns and ask you to join with us regarding:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the news that the bone marrow\/aspiration biopsy shows the cancer is in his bones&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>all the information we are trying to understand regarding Chris&#8217; diagnosis, overwhelm quickly sets in.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A longer email will come out this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to get email updates from us please sign up for our newsletter (quarterly) at this site:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/partner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.hirtfamily.net\/partner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear loved ones, We rejoice for the joys of today and give praise to the Lord for: Prayers with friends, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hirtfamily.net\/chris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}