{"id":113,"date":"2008-09-15T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crankopotamus.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2008-09-15T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T02:35:10","slug":"im-walkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/im-walkin\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m walkin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah was a patient at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. They are, quite simply, the best. I am very grateful that we had that resource available to us.<\/p>\n<p>But chemotherapy is damned expensive, let me tell you. Sarah&#8217;s six months of surgeries and treatment cost almost a million dollars. We had excellent health insurance. Many others are less fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, September 21, Nathaniel and I will walk in the 2008 Boston Marathon Jimmy Fund Walk. The Jimmy Fund helps pay for cancer research and care at Dana-Farber.<\/p>\n<p>We are walking to raise money. We are walking to honor Sarah and remember her life. Most of all, we are walking because we believe we can make a difference. If everyone who reads this donates just $10, I will exceed my goal of $1,500.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Donate now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimmyfundwalk.org\/dcg\" target=\"_self\">jimmyfundwalk.org\/dcg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We walked last year and it was a wonderful experience. I hope to walk again next year.<\/p>\n<p>And I hope to live to see the day when we don&#8217;t have to walk any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah was a patient at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. They are, quite simply, the best. I am very grateful that we had that resource available to us. But chemotherapy is damned expensive, let me tell you. Sarah&#8217;s six months of surgeries and treatment cost almost a million dollars. We had excellent health insurance. Many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/im-walkin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m walkin&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sarah","category-thanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crankopotamus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}