{"id":63823,"date":"2017-07-17T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T16:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63823"},"modified":"2017-07-16T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T18:12:41","slug":"rip-greg-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63823","title":{"rendered":"RIP Greg Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was at Holes for Heroes back in 2016 that Brad Carlson and me got to interview Greg Thomas, a man in Montgomery, MN who, when given a terminal diagnosis and mere weeks to live, decided to restore a crumbling country church.<\/p>\n<p>His story was spellbinding &#8211; it was one of the most interesting interviews I&#8217;ve ever done. \u00a0And it chronicled a quest that had gone on (if I recall correctly) for seven years, at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t bad for a guy who&#8217;d been given, as I recall, three months to live.<\/p>\n<p>As we parted ways, I told him to come by next year and update us. \u00a0He said he hoped he could &#8211; but he&#8217;d just gotten more bad news about his prognosis, and would be lucky to be around in months, rather than a full year.<\/p>\n<p>He was finally right.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Greg Thomas, a cancer patient who inspired millions with restoration of crumbling country church, has died: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VdbXCeFzta\">https:\/\/t.co\/VdbXCeFzta<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rbSuWEOZFI\">pic.twitter.com\/rbSuWEOZFI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boyd Huppert (@BoydHuppert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoydHuppert\/status\/886602087538229248\">July 16, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But then we all are, eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the amazing story, Greg, RIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was at Holes for Heroes back in 2016 that Brad Carlson and me got to interview Greg Thomas, a man in Montgomery, MN who, when given a terminal diagnosis and mere weeks to live, decided to restore a crumbling country church. His story was spellbinding &#8211; it was one of the most interesting interviews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63824,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63823\/revisions\/63824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}