{"id":167276,"date":"2023-07-10T18:27:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/haunting-message-in-a-bottle-from-cancer-patient-washes-up-in-florida-i-am-now-gone"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:27:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T23:27:09","slug":"haunting-message-in-a-bottle-from-cancer-patient-washes-up-in-florida-i-am-now-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/haunting-message-in-a-bottle-from-cancer-patient-washes-up-in-florida-i-am-now-gone","title":{"rendered":"Haunting Message in a Bottle From Cancer Patient Washes Up in Florida: \u2018I Am Now Gone\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/haunting-message-in-a-bottle-from-cancer-patient-washes-up-in-florida-i-am-now-gone3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stumbling across seashells and sea creatures is commonplace while on a trip to Florida, but finding a message in a bottle seems like something straight out of a storybook.<\/p>\n<p>Brent Coleman, his 13-year-old son Garrison, and his friend, 13-year-old Lane McCall, had traveled from Georgia for a vacation when they came across a bottle while walking on Bradenton Beach, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/local-news\/manatee-county\/message-in-a-bottle-washes-ashore-bradenton-beach-contents-reunited-with-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WFLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the bottle was a handwritten note from a man named Howard Brown. He had written that he would have loved to live a life in Florida with his wife of 57 years, but \u201ccancer had other plans.\u201d The note continued, stating that by the time someone found the bottle, he would be gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stumbling across seashells and sea creatures is commonplace while on a trip to Florida, but finding a message in a bottle seems like something straight out of a storybook. Brent Coleman, his 13-year-old son Garrison, and his friend, 13-year-old Lane McCall, had traveled from Georgia for a vacation when they came across a bottle while [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}