{"id":403,"date":"2002-10-31T11:08:56","date_gmt":"2002-10-31T19:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/?p=403"},"modified":"2009-08-17T21:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T05:15:54","slug":"good-news-bad-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/2002\/10\/31\/good-news-bad-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news &#38; bad news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this morning, i picked up my <a href=\"javascript:alert('vw golf, baby! when i walk around the parking lot, i still can not believe it is mine.');\" title=\"info\">brand new car<\/a> and the sad irony is that this is the one piece of good news in ages i would like to tell my grandma in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maganda.org\/girl\/11041999.html\">a letter<\/a>, but she is in the hospital in ICU. she had a heart attack at 3 in the morning. she couldn&#8217;t breathe. the first 24 hours are critical, they say. if she pulls through, she&#8217;ll be okay. if not, well.<\/p>\n<p>on friday night, we all gathered in my living room to call her. we passed the phone, giggles and exasperated breaths because she couldn&#8217;t understand a word we were saying.<\/p>\n<p>when ricky asked her how she was feeling, she said, &#8220;not so good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>when i asked her the same question, she said, &#8220;very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;but grandma,&#8221; i said, &#8220;that&#8217;s not what you told ricky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>she laughed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;for ricky&#8230;not so good. for you&#8230;very well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>maybe she wanted to put on her brave face for me, because she knows i am always telling her not to worry, to think positively, that everything will be okay. but now, i have a hard time believing those things, myself.<\/p>\n<p>my mom leaves on a plane first thing in the morning, while the rest of us wait, hope and pray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this morning, i picked up my brand new car and the sad irony is that this is the one piece of good news in ages i would like to tell my grandma in a letter, but she is in the hospital in ICU. she had a heart attack at 3 in the morning. she couldn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/maganda.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}