{"id":2291,"date":"2014-04-14T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2014-04-14T13:43:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T20:43:05","slug":"my-fathers-heart-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/2014\/04\/14\/my-fathers-heart-update\/","title":{"rendered":"My Fathers Heart &#8211; UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On January 4, 1998 in Los Angeles my father Bob Swanson had his life saved with a heart transplant. You can read about the events leading up this major life changing (read SAVING!) event when I first blogged about it back in 2013 by clicking <a title=\"My fathers Heart\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/2013\/03\/17\/my-fathers-heart\/\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Fathers Heart &#8211; UPDATE<\/p>\n<p>My father and I have started a tradition where we visit the family of the beautiful soul that his heart first belonged to. Here are some recent pictures from our trip and the smiling faces of the family that kept my families heart beating&#8230; quite literally.<\/p>\n<p>ELKO NEVADA, GOLD RUSH TOWN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-e1397508023338.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2294\" alt=\"photo 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-e1397508023338-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-e1397508023338-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-e1397508023338-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-3-e1397508023338.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2292\" alt=\"photo 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2293\" alt=\"photo 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2295\" alt=\"photo 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-4-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-4.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2296\" alt=\"photo 5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5-1024x576.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-5.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 4, 1998 in Los Angeles my father Bob Swanson had his life saved with a heart transplant. You can read about the events leading up this major life changing (read SAVING!) event when I first blogged about it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/2014\/04\/14\/my-fathers-heart-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[571,285,569,292,293,568,572,574,573,525,567,570],"class_list":["post-2291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-bob","tag-bob-swanson","tag-donation","tag-elko","tag-elko-nevada","tag-fathers","tag-gold","tag-gold-rush","tag-goldrush","tag-heart","tag-my","tag-transplant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendaswanson.com\/brendasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}