{"id":92495,"date":"2019-04-25T04:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T04:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9gag.com\/gag\/aYYmvo2"},"modified":"2019-04-25T04:32:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T04:32:45","slug":"dying-man-wanted-to-hear-harleys-roar-one-last-time-so-over-100-bikers-surround-his-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/25\/dying-man-wanted-to-hear-harleys-roar-one-last-time-so-over-100-bikers-surround-his-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Dying man wanted to hear Harley's roar one last time, so over 100 bikers surround his house"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Being diagnosed with terminal lung and brain cancer. The illness meant that Stanley was eventually incapacitated and forced to use a respirator to breathe. When it progressed to this stage, his brother-in-law, Michael Smith, got in touch with a local biker named David Thompson.<\/div>\n
“I was contacted this morning about 6:30 this morning by Mike Smith through Facebook – and he informed me about Jon, you know he’s terminal, and he’s not looking really good, and one of his wishes was to hear a bunch of motorcycles out his window,” Thompson said.<\/div>\n
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In response to this request, Thompson put out an open call on the website for bikers to surround Stanley’s house in South Bend, Indiana. Just 6 hours after asking bikers to assemble, 200 of them on more than 100 bikes turned up outside Stanley’s home.<\/div>\n
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The touching incident happened on June 12, 2017. Stanley was then taken outside by his family and put into a sidecar so that he could not only hear the roar of the Harley-Davidsons but feel their vibrations too.<\/div>\n
> _One of the bikers Pat Schoff Gragg, said: You could tell he enjoyed the feeling of that one last rumble. He was holding on._<\/div>\n
A few hours after having his last wish fulfilled, Jon passed away in his wife’s arms.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being diagnosed with terminal lung and brain cancer. The illness meant that Stanley was eventually incapacitated and forced to use a respirator to breathe. When it progressed to this stage, his brother-in-law, Michael Smith, got in touch with a local biker named David Thompson. “I was contacted this morning about 6:30 this morning by Mike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}