{"id":85,"date":"2022-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforlaurensheart\/2022\/04\/03\/almost-a-year-and-april-fools\/"},"modified":"2022-04-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T00:00:00","slug":"almost-a-year-and-april-fools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaurensheart\/2022\/04\/03\/almost-a-year-and-april-fools\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost a year and April fools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost been one year since my heart attack and heart transplant, which means my family and I have the opportunity to write a letter to my donor&#8217;s family. I have no clue what I am going to write. I might just start with introducing myself and thank them? I don&#8217;t know, maybe I&#8217;ll just go from there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once we give the letter to the heart transplant team, they&#8217;ll send it to the donor&#8217;s family, and if the family wants to write back, they can. It&#8217;s also possible they might not write back. I really hope they do, though, because I have a lot of questions about my donor. It&#8217;s strange to have someone&#8217;s heart, but you don&#8217;t know who it is! The only thing we know is their weight and even that is not exact. We only know it&#8217;s between 70 and 110 pounds, I think. I&#8217;ve always wondered about their gender, how old they were, and where they lived, too. I have all of these questions and a there&#8217;s always a chance they won&#8217;t get answered!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;d like to add that I&#8217;m a huge fan of April Fool&#8217;s Day. This year I tricked my mom into thinking her favorite actor had quit acting by creating a newpaper on Word. For Abby, I postponed her band trip to Tennesee for school in a news article. Finally, my cousin, Emma, was visiting us and she lives in Toledo so I made up Toledo traffic in another news article. I haven&#8217;t pranked my dad yet. I can&#8217;t tell you what I&#8217;m going to do to him because he&#8217;ll probably read this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading and enjoy your weekend.<\/p>\n<p>I hope all is well,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lauren \ud83d\ude42&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon,&nbsp; It&#8217;s almost been one year since my heart attack and heart transplant, which means my family and I have the opportunity to write a letter to my donor&#8217;s family. I have no clue what I am going to write. I might just start with introducing myself and thank them? I don&#8217;t know, maybe [&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-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaurensheart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaurensheart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaurensheart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaurensheart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaurensheart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforlaurensheart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}