{"id":108801,"date":"2023-02-20T01:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T01:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=108801"},"modified":"2023-02-20T01:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T01:50:05","slug":"hes-an-inspiration-tributes-pour-in-after-jimmy-carter-enters-hospice-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=108801","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;\u2018He\u2019s an inspiration\u2019: tributes pour in after Jimmy Carter enters hospice care&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/feb\/19\/jimmy-carter-hospice-care-tributes-reaction\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>: &#8220;Tributes continue to be made to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/03\/jimmy-carter-climate-change-carterland-film-biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the former US president Jimmy Carter<\/a>, after the announcement that the 98-year-old has entered hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, instead of receiving \u201cadditional\u201d medical treatment&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The former peanut farmer,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/state-of-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Georgia<\/a>&nbsp;governor and 39th president from 1977 to 1981 has been in ill health for several years, suffering falls and skin cancer melanoma which spread to his liver and brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI, obviously, prayed about it,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2019\/11\/04\/jimmy-carter-says-he-is-completely-ease-with-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he said in 2019<\/a>, about his cancer diagnosis four years before. \u201cI didn\u2019t ask God to let me live, but I just asked God to give me a proper attitude toward death. And I found that I was absolutely and completely at ease with death. It didn\u2019t really matter to me whether I died or lived.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Carter Center did not provide details of recent hospitalisations. Jason Carter, the former president\u2019s grandson, also referred to Rosalynn Carter, 95, when he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorCarter\/status\/1627043393175171072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said in a tweet<\/a>: \u201cI saw both of my grandparents yesterday. They are at peace and \u2013 as always \u2013 their home is full of love.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: &#8220;Tributes continue to be made to\u00a0the former US president Jimmy Carter, after the announcement that the 98-year-old has entered hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, instead of receiving \u201cadditional\u201d medical treatment&#8230;. The former peanut farmer,&nbsp;Georgia&nbsp;governor and 39th president from 1977 to 1981 has been in ill health for several years, suffering&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108802,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108801\/revisions\/108802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}