{"id":1684,"date":"2003-08-20T15:44:20","date_gmt":"2003-08-20T20:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2003\/08\/20\/ha-told-you-so\/"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T16:38:09","slug":"ha-told-you-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2003\/08\/20\/ha-told-you-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Ha! Told you so&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally heard from the doc this afternoon, and while they aren&#8217;t exactly sure what it is, <a title=\"Confused? Maybe this will clarify things\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2003\/08\/06\/medical-update-dont-buy-your-veil-just-yet\/\">my little lung-dwelling friend<\/a> is not cancer or even a tumor. We&#8217;ll do another CAT scan in six months to make sure it&#8217;s not changing, but I&#8217;ve basically been given a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, folks&#8230;you don&#8217;t know how much I appreciate those of you who sent expressions of encouragement, prayers (and even jokes). [<em>Kum-bah-ya<\/em> plays softly in the background] Despite my bravado, this was still an unsettling episode, and the fact that people who basically don&#8217;t know me from Adam cared what happened is quite humbling and wonderful. <em>\u00a1Muchas gracias, amigos!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The only downside is that I have to file away the Pecos River Viking funeral arrangements for another day. And that was going to be so cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally heard from the doc this afternoon, and while they aren&#8217;t exactly sure what it is, my little lung-dwelling friend is not cancer or even a tumor. We&#8217;ll do another CAT scan in six months to make sure it&#8217;s not changing, but I&#8217;ve basically been given a clean bill of health. Listen, folks&#8230;you don&#8217;t&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2003\/08\/20\/ha-told-you-so\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ha! Told you so&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicine","category-navel-gazing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7254,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1684\/revisions\/7254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}