{"id":1237,"date":"2009-06-19T05:13:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2009-06-19T05:13:55","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T13:13:55","slug":"ken-vierling-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Ken Vierling on the move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for ISC II UiC Ken Vierling, who will be flying home to Minnesota today from a Denver hospital. Ken was involved in a single-vehicle accident outside of Denver early in the spring that took the life of his passenger and has left him paralyzed from the chest down. Ken&#8217;s brother Dave and his sister-in-law Lori have been by his side at the hospital ever since, providing daily updates on Ken&#8217;s progress in his recovery. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have great news everyone.  Ken is coming home [today].  He will leave the hospital at 9:00 AM and leave the airport at 11:00 AM.  He will arrive in Rochester at about 4:15 PM CDT.  All transportation to and from hospitals and airports are paid for and nothing is stopping us now.  Apparently the weather is going to be good for flying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read their reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caringbridge.org\/visit\/comicdude\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ken&#8217;s friends have created a web site to assist with fundraising efforts. If you can find a way to help, either by buying tickets, attending the events or providing support in some other way, please do so.<\/p>\n<p>Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenvierling.org\/\">www.kenvierling.org<\/a> to find out how you can help.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.kenvierling.org\/kevin.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We wish Ken continued best wishes in his ongoing therapy and ask that you keep in him your thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for ISC II UiC Ken Vierling, who will be flying home to Minnesota today from a Denver hospital. Ken was involved in a single-vehicle accident outside of Denver early in the spring that took the life of his passenger and has left him paralyzed from the chest down. Ken&#8217;s brother Dave and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/thedeuce\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}