{"id":670,"date":"2007-05-02T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/answered_prayer.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:45:34","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:45:34","slug":"answered_prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/answered_prayer.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Answered Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update on Mat.<br \/>\nFirst, I neglected to mention in my last post how things had deteriorated.  During a procedure, one of his lungs was punctured and his chest filled with air.  It took 3 chest tubes to relieve it.  As a result of that trauma, he was put on a ventilator.  So things were not very good at all.<br \/>\nThe good news, however, was that today they took him off the ventilator and he&#8217;s making progress towards coming home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick update on Mat. 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