{"id":11816,"date":"2017-03-28T09:24:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=11816"},"modified":"2017-03-28T09:24:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T15:24:31","slug":"cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=11816","title":{"rendered":"Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Kennedy, a good friend and mentor, was diagnosed earlier this year with cancer. Both him and another friend have said it doesn&#8217;t look good for him. Bill&#8217;s a fighter, so I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s giving his all with this, but prayers are called for.<\/p>\n<p>Bill has lead an interesting life. Never married, he traveled the world in his job as a communications engineer. He worked on the space station&#8217;s communications systems, the space shuttles, and many top secret systems that are intelligence related. He&#8217;s been on most continents and in several countries that he never was, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>Bill and I have ridden many miles together. He brought me on board for the road captain crew and helped make me the rider that I am. In theory, if and when I get trained to teach new riders, I will be replacing him in the ranks of riding instructors. I have already stepped in, temporarily I hope, as a range officer for the concealed carry classes. For a retired old fart, he sure has a busy life, one I pray he can return to soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Kennedy, a good friend and mentor, was diagnosed earlier this year with cancer. Both him and another friend have said it doesn&#8217;t look good for him. Bill&#8217;s a fighter, so I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;s giving his all with this, but prayers are called for. Bill has lead an interesting life. Never married, he traveled the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=11816\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cancer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11817,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11816\/revisions\/11817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}