{"id":21,"date":"2022-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforamandashope\/2022\/11\/21\/a-special-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2022-11-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T00:00:00","slug":"a-special-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforamandashope\/2022\/11\/21\/a-special-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"A Special Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda has made good progress in healing from her surgery and has been getting much better rest at night.&nbsp; She was able to have her feeding tube removed in October and her body has healed nicely from the removal.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We have noticed her health is more fragile due to her weakened immune system.&nbsp; Things like allergies, which in the past may have just been an annoyance, take a greater toll on her body, lasting longer and requiring more medical intervention.&nbsp;&nbsp; In October, Amanda, along with our entire family contracted Covid.&nbsp; Everyone had the vaccine, so it wasn&rsquo;t too bad for any of us, except Rick.&nbsp; He believes we had a &ldquo;new&rdquo; variant which attacks men more severely and should be named &ldquo;the man-eater.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Amanda is looking forward to Thanksgiving and getting to spend time with family, especially her young cousins.&nbsp; Thanksgiving has always been a time to give thanks, but this year it has an even greater significance for our family.&nbsp; Although it has been a difficult year, we have so much to be grateful for.&nbsp; We are grateful for a close and loving family, the kindness and generosity of friends and strangers, and the life of our beautiful daughter, Amanda! &nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2473\/images\/Thanks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda has made good progress in healing from her surgery and has been getting much better rest at night.&nbsp; She was able to have her feeding tube removed in October and her body has healed nicely from the removal.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We have noticed her health is more fragile due to her weakened immune system.&nbsp; Things like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforamandashope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforamandashope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforamandashope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforamandashope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforamandashope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforamandashope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}