{"id":520,"date":"2014-11-01T21:20:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T06:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=520"},"modified":"2014-11-02T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T19:29:07","slug":"nov-1-falling-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Nov. 1 &#8211; Falling Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Nov. 1 &#8211; Falling Leaves\" 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=520\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/falling-leaves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-521\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/falling-leaves.jpg\" alt=\"falling leaves\" width=\"227\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every fall I marvel at the variety of colors in the leaves as they fall from the trees.\u00a0 Today as I was admiring them I started thinking of Hospice patients that have died during the past year.\u00a0 Some died much earlier than we expected them, and others had many more days of life than we expected them to have.\u00a0 Even with a terminal diagnosis, each client in unique, with their own story, their own expectations, and a set of people who love them and who hate to be forced to say \u201cgood-bye\u201d to them.\u00a0 Leaves represent the end of the life cycle just as buds in the Spring represent the beginning of the life cycle.\u00a0 What are consistent from the beginning of life to the end of life are the impressions we make on people.\u00a0 Each of us has the ability to make the lives of others better.\u00a0 The question is, will we take advantage of those opportunities or let them be the work of others?\u00a0 I am thankful for all the ways our Hospice patients made life special for the people in their circles of relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Every fall I marvel at the variety of colors in the leaves as they fall from the trees.\u00a0 Today as I was admiring them I started thinking of Hospice patients that have died during the past year.\u00a0 Some died much earlier than we expected them, and others had many more days of life than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=520\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nov. 1 &#8211; Falling Leaves<\/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-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}