{"id":100480,"date":"2009-12-25T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/chit-chat\/46974-true-tale-christmas-eve.html"},"modified":"2009-12-25T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T16:09:09","slug":"true-tale-of-christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/100480","title":{"rendered":"True tale of Christmas Eve!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Our eldest grandson spent Christmas Eve in the hospital. But don&#8217;t gasp &#8211; here&#8217;s the tale:<\/p>\n<p>He works at a fitness center in OKC, and had an early client yesterday, so he left very early in the morning to get to work on time, despite the blizzard conditions enveloping Oklahoma. (As do so many young Okie males, he drives an enormous pickup truck . . . as in &quot;what snow drifts?&quot;  ;))<\/p>\n<p>After the day&#8217;s work the staff found they couldn&#8217;t get their vehicles out of the parking lot, so young-and-strong grandson cheerfully pushed everyone out until all were headed home &amp; he found himself alone in the parking lot. Not only alone, but unable to get his OWN vehicle moving. <\/p>\n<p>He called his dad to come get him . . . that&#8217;s impossible. Dad can&#8217;t even get to their mailbox 1\/4 mile down the driveway, let alone all the way into the city. But dad called the fitness center manager <font size=\"1\"><font color=\"DarkSlateGray\">(who had made it home thanks to grandson&#8217;s assistance!)<\/font><\/font> to let him know he had one employee still stranded in the parking lot. <\/p>\n<p>Fitness center manager thinks fast &amp; calls the hospital across the road from the fitness center. Hospital says they&#8217;d be more than happy to find accomodations for a young strong good samaritan who saved so many others&#8217; Christmas Eve plans at the risk of his own. <\/p>\n<p>We still don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s been able to get home yet . . . at bedtime last night snow was still falling &amp; 50mph winds were still packing it into deep drifts. We&#8217;re just hoping he got a good night&#8217;s sleep . . . \ud83d\ude00 <\/p>\n<p>Ah the joys of winter life on the Great Plains . . . \ud83d\ude2e<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our eldest grandson spent Christmas Eve in the hospital. But don&#8217;t gasp &#8211; here&#8217;s the tale: He works at a fitness center in OKC, and had an early client yesterday, so he left very early in the morning to get to work on time, despite the blizzard conditions enveloping Oklahoma. (As do so many young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}