{"id":2524,"date":"2007-06-14T13:31:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2007-06-14T13:31:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T19:31:28","slug":"ruth-graham-in-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ruth-graham-in-coma\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Graham in coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ruth Graham<\/strong>, pastor of world renowned evangelist, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=1&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.billygraham.org%2F&#038;ei=-pVxRpXhNYOQigG2vpHoCA&#038;usg=AFQjCNE89c3iCEUXC6815oPWCx7uttXr1A&#038;sig2=TibhCRXxD0uxq1j4sgeXSw\">Billy Graham<\/a><\/strong>, has fallen into a coma.<br \/>\nAccording to a report from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonville.com\/apnews\/stories\/061407\/D8POOPS01.shtml\">AP<\/a>, Ruth Graham fell into a coma yesterday, the same day the Grahams announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2519\">both Billy and Ruth would be buried<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billygraham.org\/BGLibrary_Index.asp#DedicationHighlights\">Billy Graham Library<\/a> in Charlotte, NC.<br \/>\nAs of this morning a spokesman for the Grahams said she was only semi-comatose but is becoming less responsive to caregivers and her family has joined her at her side.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Wednesday, her husband had said she &#8220;is close to going home to heaven.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Ruth is my soul mate and best friend, and I cannot imagine living a single day without her by my side,&#8221; said Billy Graham, who is 88 and ailing himself with prostate cancer and Parkinson&#8217;s disease. &#8220;I am more in love with her today than when we first met over 65 years ago as students at Wheaton College.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Graham, pastor of world renowned evangelist, Billy Graham, has fallen into a coma. According to a report from the AP, Ruth Graham fell into a coma yesterday, the same day the Grahams announced both Billy and Ruth would be buried at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, NC. As of this morning a spokesman &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/ruth-graham-in-coma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ruth Graham in coma<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-newsandpop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-EI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}