{"id":3944,"date":"2009-11-26T07:11:59","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2009-11-26T07:11:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T12:11:59","slug":"engage-with-grace-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2009\/11\/engage-with-grace-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Engage With Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Drane and her team have a new post on The Health Care Blog about how to put this holiday to work in a new way. Here&#8217;s a snippet:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehealthcareblog.com\/the_health_care_blog\/2009\/11\/some-conversations-are-easier-than-others-------last-thanksgiving-weekend-many-of-us-bloggers-participated-in-the-first-docu.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehealthcareblog.com\/the_health_care_blog\/2009\/11\/some-conversations-are-easier-than-others-------last-thanksgiving-weekend-many-of-us-bloggers-participated-in-the-first-docu.html\" target=\"_blank\">Some conversations are easier than others<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our original mission \u2013 to get more and more people talking about their end of life wishes \u2013 hasn\u2019t changed. But it\u2019s been quite a year \u2013 so we thought this holiday, we\u2019d try something different.<\/p>\n<p>A bit of levity.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of Engage With Grace are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engagewithgrace.org\/Questions.aspx\">five questions <\/a>designed to get the conversation started. 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