{"id":90,"date":"2025-05-31T03:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/?p=90"},"modified":"2025-05-31T03:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T02:39:10","slug":"a-brown-paper-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/a-brown-paper-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brown Paper Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A brown Paper Bag is the tenative title to my next book. Scheduled to be released at the end of August 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a story of a young sick child and the doctor that lived down the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The child\u2019s seemingly innocuous repayments stuffed into a brown paper bag, changed and enriched the doctor\u2019s entire life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please be aware that this story will pull at your heartstrings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy,<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bpg-723x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-91\" style=\"width:170px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bpg-723x1024.png 723w, https:\/\/the-signal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bpg-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/the-signal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/bpg.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Chapter 1<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>A Young Doctor<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thomas Betterman MD. General Surgeon, Floor-2, Room-6<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Assistant Secretary to the Head Administrator, Ms. Julia Wright had just finished adding his name to the 1<sup>st<\/sup> floor directory next to the main elevators when the newest \u2018Hope Children\u2019s Hospital\u2019 doctor entered the hospital lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGood morning. Julia,\u201d the young doctor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWell good morning, Doctor Thomas.\u201d She replied, \u201cI\u2019ve just finished adding your name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI see! Thank you very much. It looks perfect\u201d the new doctor added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas pushed the button and proceeded up to his new office. He thought about Julia as he went up. She was an excellent secretary and he would need someone like her to run his new office. He would also need an assistant to help with the new patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Email <a href=\"mailto:Bob@Bob-Richey.com\">Bob@Bob-Richey.com<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I will notify you when the book is finished and available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brown Paper Bag is the tenative title to my next book. Scheduled to be released at the end of August 2025. This is a story of a young sick child and the doctor that lived down the street. The child\u2019s seemingly innocuous repayments stuffed into a brown paper bag, changed and enriched the doctor\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/a-brown-paper-bag\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Brown Paper Bag&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,26,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-a-brown-paper-bag","tag-doctor","tag-doctors-visit","tag-sick-child","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-signal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}