{"id":60734,"date":"2018-08-09T22:26:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=60734"},"modified":"2018-08-09T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:26:28","slug":"thursday-night-ticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2018\/08\/09\/thursday-night-ticker\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – Ticker !"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago Diane was listening  to ‘On Point’  on NPR. They were interviewing the author of a new book called Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart<\/a> . <\/strong>I haven’t heard the  interview yet.. but she talked about my brother Billy and his close colleague Bud Frazer and the work they’re doign on developing a new artificial heart.   <\/p>\n

You can catch the episode here http:\/\/www.wbur.org\/onpoint\/2018\/08\/08\/ticker-artificial-heart-mimi-swartz<\/a><\/p>\n

Diane then went to Audible and bought the audio book<\/a>. She’s already 6 hours in to the 9 hour book. We listend to chapter 12 together.. and its ALL ABOUT BILLY !!!!!.. We haven’t gotten fuirther.. but I know he’s gonna come back in big time in the final chapters. <\/p>\n

I just bought the book on Amazon Kindle.<\/a><\/p>\n

Just starting it now..I know the story by heart (lol) ..  but  its so fun and surreal to be reading this. You have to check it out !!!<\/p>\n

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so proud of Billy !.. What an amazing contribution to the world !<\/p>\n

nite all,  nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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A couple of days ago Diane was listening  to ‘On Point’  on NPR. They were interviewing the author of a new book called Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart . I haven’t heard the  interview yet.. but she talked about my brother Billy and his close colleague Bud Frazer and the work they’re doign … Continue reading Thursday night – Ticker !<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60736,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60734\/revisions\/60736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}