{"id":564,"date":"2010-05-11T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/tales-of-colonoscopy\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:05:26","slug":"tales-of-colonoscopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/tales-of-colonoscopy.html","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Colonoscopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Well, here I am sitting in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>This time its not my colonoscopy, but Jan\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Friends have been giving us various tidbits to contemplate.<\/p>\n<p>One is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparksflyup.com\/2004\/10\/colonoscopy.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">John Green\u2019s tale of his Colonoscopy<\/a>. It is delightful\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Some people who missed how I posted it when announcing my own experience on the table forwarded links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6uPu1dRRfTY\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Homer\u2019s colonoscopy<\/a>. Others thought we would be informed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=15JsYSZIT-Q\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Katie Couric\u2019s colonoscopy<\/a>. For unknown reasons still others suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BBMsPNI6EZE\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Billy Connolly\u2019s experience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly right on the mark, I thought, was Peter Yarrow\u2019s song\u2026<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Colonoscopy Song - Peter Yarrow\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JqvpfrnmJrg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p>Bottom line, as it were, when your time comes, do it\u2026<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-4898573523047370435?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, here I am sitting in the hospital. 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It is delightful\u2026 Some people who missed how I posted it when announcing my own experience on the table forwarded links to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tales of Colonoscopy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Well, here I am sitting in the hospital.This time its not my colonoscopy, but Jan&#039;s...Friends have been giving us various tidbits to contemplate.One is\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/tales-of-colonoscopy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tales of Colonoscopy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Well, here I am sitting in the hospital.This time its not my colonoscopy, but Jan&#039;s...Friends have been giving us various tidbits to contemplate.One is\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/tales-of-colonoscopy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Monkey Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/james.ford.1029\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2010-05-11T08:11:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-11-01T19:05:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-4898573523047370435?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"James Ford\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/tales-of-colonoscopy.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/tales-of-colonoscopy.html\",\"name\":\"Tales of Colonoscopy\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2010-05-11T08:11:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-11-01T19:05:26+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\"},\"description\":\"Well, here I am sitting in the hospital.This time its not my colonoscopy, but Jan's...Friends have been giving us various tidbits to contemplate.One is\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/tales-of-colonoscopy.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/tales-of-colonoscopy.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2010\/05\/tales-of-colonoscopy.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tales of Colonoscopy\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/\",\"name\":\"Monkey Mind\",\"description\":\"Easily distracted...\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/3f37f475fb5078d1e7faa93a63a0fddb\",\"name\":\"James Ford\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/fa18971b225a3bb79f0c4c381a5fae20?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"James Ford\"},\"description\":\"James Ishmael Ford is a writer and spiritual director. 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