{"id":8636,"date":"2010-06-14T10:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T14:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2010-09-27T07:53:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T11:53:40","slug":"a-dream-trip-for-a-dying-man-fulfilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/a-dream-trip-for-a-dying-man-fulfilled\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream Trip For A Dying Man Fulfilled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly 57 The CW:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls; one of the world&#8217;s amazing natural wonders. Joe Camarota always wanted to see them and now, from his porch in Ventnor, he thought he might not ever get the chance.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t much time left.<\/p>\n<p>Joe tells me, &#8220;Not a whole lot, I don&#8217;t like to tell the family but not a whole lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joe is 65 and has emphysema.<\/p>\n<p>On oxygen constantly, he&#8217;s been in and out of the hospital for months. It got so bad in January, a priest actually gave him last rites.<\/p>\n<p>His daughter Denise Brasher says &#8220;he&#8217;s the best dad in the world, he&#8217;s my best friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After that, Denise wanted to grant her dad&#8217;s wish of seeing the falls and to make some special memories for her son, Ethan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly 57 The CW: Niagara Falls; one of the world&#8217;s amazing natural wonders. Joe Camarota always wanted to see them and now, from his porch in Ventnor, he thought he might not ever get the chance. There isn&#8217;t much time left. Joe tells me, &#8220;Not a whole lot, I don&#8217;t like to tell the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,2],"tags":[3759,3760,3753,3754,3755,470,41,3757,3758,3756],"class_list":["post-8636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-best-friend","tag-dad","tag-denise-brasher","tag-emphysema","tag-joe-camarota","tag-natural-wonders","tag-niagara-falls","tag-philly-57","tag-the-cw","tag-ventnor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}