{"id":2602,"date":"2023-07-12T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:09","slug":"ok-thank-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"OK &#8211; THANK GOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I sat down to write and within 60 seconds Melissa&#8217;s phone rang. It was Hannah and she started the conversation with &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to freak you out. I&#8217;m OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She had just walked away from her car &#8211; likely totaled &#8211; now sitting on the shoulder of an interstate in New Jersey. She told us she had been going about 60 mph when she hit a deer. The airbag had deployed but she managed to get the car stopped safely.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank God.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa and I had worried about her traveling around Europe by herself all through the month of June and had breathed a sigh of relief when she returned to the States a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it doesn&#8217;t take more than a deer to shake up life.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is 11:00 pm Tuesday, July 11 as I type. A police officer is now on the scene with her. If you happen to read this in the next few hours, would you lift Hannah in your prayers?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She&#8217;s shaken up pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But she&#8217;s OK.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sat down to write and within 60 seconds Melissa&#8217;s phone rang. It was Hannah and she started the conversation with &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to freak you out. I&#8217;m OK.&#8221; She had just walked away from her car &#8211; likely totaled &#8211; now sitting on the shoulder of an interstate in New Jersey. She told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}