{"id":11909,"date":"2015-12-06T23:31:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11909"},"modified":"2015-12-06T23:31:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T23:31:49","slug":"president-carter-has-more-work-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11909","title":{"rendered":"President Carter has more work to do"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jimmy-carter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10655\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jimmy-carter1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"**FILE**Former President Jimmy Carter takes a question during a conference at The Carter Center in Atlanta, Tuesday, June 7, 2005. An independent panel Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2005 reversed a Pentagon recommendation that the New London submarine base in Connecticut, base be closed. One of the panel members even said a letter from Carter _ the only president to ever serve as a submariner _ pleading the panel to keep the base open was one of the reasons he voted against closure. (AP Photo\/Ric Feld, File)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jimmy-carter1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jimmy-carter1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jimmy-carter1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Count me as one American who was thinking dark thoughts when President Carter announced some months ago that his doctors had found cancer in his brain.<\/p>\n<p>There was a certain sound of resignation in the former president&#8217;s voice as he told the nation of the diagnosis, while announcing he would proceed with radiation treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Then came news today. It was much better news &#8230; at a time when we Americans are looking for a glimmer of hope somewhere in light of recent events in California and the still-simmering aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>President Carter told his Sunday school class he is cancer-free. The cancer is gone. The treatment worked, did its job.<\/p>\n<p>This is an admirable man. He spent four years in the White House and has spent the longest post-presidential period in the nation&#8217;s history doing good work around the world. He&#8217;s been building houses for poor people; he developed the Carter Center in Atlanta; he has been monitoring elections in countries that never had free and fair elections before; he&#8217;s been speaking out on issues of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to hear this good news about\u00a0the former president&#8217;s \u00a0health.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he&#8217;s an old man. He&#8217;s past 90 and he&#8217;s lived a full and fabulous life. When it&#8217;s his time to leave this world, the president &#8212; a deeply devout Christian &#8212; will be ready.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad to know his time among us isn&#8217;t up just yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Count me as one American who was thinking dark thoughts when President Carter announced some months ago that his doctors had found cancer in his brain. There was a certain sound of resignation in the former president&#8217;s voice as he told the nation of the diagnosis, while announcing he would proceed with radiation treatment. Then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=11909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">President Carter has more work to do<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[833,5728,977,5729,2491,5730],"class_list":["post-11909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cancer","tag-carter-center","tag-christianity","tag-free-elections","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-sunday-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11910,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11909\/revisions\/11910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}