{"id":39,"date":"2023-10-31T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaformanny\/?p=39"},"modified":"2023-11-02T16:01:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:01:11","slug":"hay-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/2023\/10\/31\/hay-pumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Hay, Pumpkin!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The cooler fall weather is finally here, praise God!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-1.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Manny had a SUPER ENCOURAGING check-up at Duke early this month in which we learned his incision is FINALLY closed up with no complications. Although his Ejection Franction number has not improved and may not ever, his blood work numbers were\u00a0the BEST ever and his ICD seems to be operating JUST FINE, so Manny is now cleared to resume all his former activities. We thank God for how He has sustained Manny&#8217;s heart this long!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-2.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you guess what Manny and his brother\u00a0are carving?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-3-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-3.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-4.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-5-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-5-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-5.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you put all the carvings together, you get&#8230;..the Gospel in 5 easy to remember symbols:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-6.jpg 450w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3877\/2023\/11\/Manny-103123-6-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to all who continue to keep Manny and our family in prayers. We close this month with a Bible verse wholly appropriate for the fall harvest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The earth is the LORD&#8217;s, and all it contains, The world and those who dwell in it.&#8221; Psalm 24:1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Christ&#8217;s Love and ours,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cooler fall weather is finally here, praise God!\u00a0 Manny had a SUPER ENCOURAGING check-up at Duke early this month in which we learned his incision is FINALLY closed up with no complications. Although his Ejection Franction number has not improved and may not ever, his blood work numbers were\u00a0the BEST ever and his ICD [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformanny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}