{"id":190,"date":"2008-09-09T19:07:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T00:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2008-09-09T19:07:20","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T00:07:20","slug":"this-place-is-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/2008\/this-place-is-huge\/","title":{"rendered":"This place is HUGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/texas_medical600.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[190]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194\" title=\"texas_medical600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/texas_medical600.jpg\" alt=\"Texas Medical Center, Houston\" width=\"500\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas Medical Center, Houston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It looks big on the map &#8211; the Texas Medical Center &#8211; but it is HUGE. It runs for blocks. Just imagine a city core populated by nothing but high-rise hospitals and medical clinics. Almost every university in Texas has at least one tower here. Then there are several named clinics, such as MD Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>Jim and Pam Pulliam met us at the airport, drove us into town, around the medical center, and then they gave us a tour of the immediate area, across Rice University as well as a trip into town &#8211; and an early dinner at Goode&#8217;s Barbecue on the edge of Rice Village. Thank you, Pulliams. And thank you, Sue, for connecting us.<\/p>\n<p>Nancy and I are settled into an Holiday Inn about 3-4 blocks from MD Anderson. Just being here and knowing where our appointment is, is comforting. We look forward to the morning, hoping we will begin to get some answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks big on the map &#8211; the Texas Medical Center &#8211; but it is HUGE. It runs for blocks. Just imagine a city core populated by nothing but high-rise hospitals and medical clinics. Almost every university in Texas has at least one tower here. Then there are several named clinics, such as MD Anderson. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-cancer-chronicle","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reddickfamily.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}