{"id":63810,"date":"2026-05-18T07:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63810"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:40:57","slug":"ufc-freedom-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63810","title":{"rendered":"UFC Freedom 250"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May winter. 35 degrees this am. Rain. A chilly, somewhat wet week ahead. A delight with cool nights. As if May knew what we&#8217;d missed and decided to make up for winter&#8217;s puny showing.<\/p>\n<p>My good friend Tom&#8217;s visit is over today. Back to Minnesota. When he comes, we talk of matters both profound and humorous. Tom and I have been Woollies for the same amount of time, ritually welcomed together at Valhelga. Old friends.<\/p>\n<p>He remarked yesterday on the strong bonds Kate and I formed with others at Congregation Beth Evergreen. Moving the fridge. Alan&#8217;s cinnamon rolls. Tara&#8217;s visits with Eleanor. Ginny and Janice including me in their family. Rich. Jamie. Part Judaism. Part the folks we got close to.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking over my fall. Believe I might have briefly passed out from the hypotension. Probably triggered the fall. I&#8217;ve made modifications including sitting on the edge of the bed before I get up. Helps.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at another hinge point. I need some p.t., some other help or I&#8217;m on a downward slope. The actinium trial is my last stand. If it doesn&#8217;t produce good results, I don&#8217;t imagine I&#8217;ll sign up for any more treatments. Too tired. Too weary of the fuss and bother. I suppose hospice would make sense then.<\/p>\n<p>This trial is far from over. I&#8217;ve had one treatment out of eight. No telling results till number 4 or so. It may yet yield lowering of my PSA and my tumor burden. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>This is, for me at least, not bad news. I accept where I am, what the situation is. No life goes on forever.<\/p>\n<p>An NYT journalist went to four Chinese cities during the recent Trump visit and asked residents what they thought of Dopy Don. &#8220;Brutal&#8221; and &#8220;Unfriendly&#8221; lead their answers. I read this article, then turned on my TV to a Paramount ad for a major UFC event. Clips featured MMA fighters kicking each other in the head, punching and grappling. UFC Freedom 250. Location? The Whitehouse! June 14th.<\/p>\n<p>Brutal. Unfriendly. Not to mention embarrassing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May winter. 35 degrees this am. Rain. A chilly, somewhat wet week ahead. A delight with cool nights. As if May knew what we&#8217;d missed and decided to make up for winter&#8217;s puny showing. My good friend Tom&#8217;s visit is over today. Back to Minnesota. When he comes, we talk of matters both profound and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=63810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UFC Freedom 250<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4394,11,127,4381,100,4317,1885],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-phase","category-friends","category-health","category-judaism","category-politics","category-shadow-mountain","category-us-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63812,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63810\/revisions\/63812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}