{"id":173,"date":"2014-07-04T01:20:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=173"},"modified":"2014-07-04T01:26:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T10:26:51","slug":"july-4-national-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"July 4 &#8211; National Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"July 4 &#8211; National Pride\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=173\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-175\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/flag.jpg\" alt=\"flag\" width=\"176\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is Independence Day! \u00a0Like many I am off work this weekend to enjoy rest and leisure. \u00a0This week I visited a hospice patient who had a decorative flag display on his table. \u00a0He told me the hospice program gave it to him. \u00a0I later learned that for all of our patients who are veterans one of our employees made and delivered these displays to them. \u00a0Most veterans I have met feel they have made sacrifices for their nation through the military service. \u00a0At the twilight of their life to receive an unsolicited token of remembrance and appreciation brought smiles to their faces and made them feel joy.<\/p>\n<p>The lesson I am learning from this is that for all patients when you can help them feel joy from previous life events, you can help them feel better in the present.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Independence Day! \u00a0Like many I am off work this weekend to enjoy rest and leisure. \u00a0This week I visited a hospice patient who had a decorative flag display on his table. \u00a0He told me the hospice program gave it to him. \u00a0I later learned that for all of our patients who are veterans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=173\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 4 &#8211; National Pride<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}