{"id":764,"date":"2015-01-13T19:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T02:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=764"},"modified":"2015-01-13T19:00:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T02:00:56","slug":"back-home-after-a-tough-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/back-home-after-a-tough-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Back home after a tough week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The past thirty days have been an adventure, ranging from family heart attacks, to major blizzards, to good old fashioned angst. \u00a0Who knew that such a thing as an Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator existed? \u00a0Fascinating \u00a0scientific achievement. \u00a0If the heart starts to beat in a fast irregular rhythm the ICD stabilizes it. \u00a0If the heart stops, the ICD restarts it. \u00a0What a medical miracle. \u00a0Thank you, Boston Scientific for creating such a device. \u00a0You helped us to keep a beloved family member with us. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On another front, we just finished the final edit for PEOPLE OF THE SONGTRAIL, about Viking contact with North America&#8217;s native people&#8217;s one thousand years ago. \u00a0We are eagerly looking forward to holding the hardcover in our hands&#8212;coming in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10671291_10204899371671375_49313415769689754_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10671291_10204899371671375_49313415769689754_n-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"10671291_10204899371671375_49313415769689754_n\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10671291_10204899371671375_49313415769689754_n-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/10671291_10204899371671375_49313415769689754_n.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>May, 2015!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past thirty days have been an adventure, ranging from family heart attacks, to major blizzards, to good old fashioned angst. \u00a0Who knew that such a thing as an Implantable Cardiac Defibrillator existed? \u00a0Fascinating \u00a0scientific achievement. \u00a0If the heart starts to beat in a fast irregular rhythm the ICD stabilizes it. \u00a0If the heart stops, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}