{"id":868,"date":"2015-06-27T21:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2015-06-27T21:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T21:00:45","slug":"there-must-be-a-pony-here-somewhere-a-lucky-life-interrupted-by-tom-brokaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/there-must-be-a-pony-here-somewhere-a-lucky-life-interrupted-by-tom-brokaw\/","title":{"rendered":"There Must be a Pony Here Somewhere, “A Lucky Life Interrupted”, by Tom Brokaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>Tom Brokaw<\/a>, the former news anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News has written a new book, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope, in which he reflects back on his life and considers what he would still like to achieve. He was 75 years old and had extreme back pain due to his multiple myeloma. Every day that he went outside his Manhattan apartment, he was smacked in the face by a huge billboard of a young, healthy Tom Brady starring back at him. He admitted to Tom Brady the first time they met, that he therapeutically cursed that billboard every time he saw it. He told Brady that his cursing him got him through cancer treatment. The story gave the New England Patriots quarterback a good laugh.
\nBrokaw was very touched by all those who reached out to him with support during his battle with cancer. Among them were the current President, President George W. Bush, Charles Barkley, and many more, including David Letterman, who was very kind in checking on him and inviting him to dinner. It was immensely helpful to him to have such considerate people caring about him.
\nIn the book, he considers his bucket list: \u25cf Learn to sail solo \u25cf Learn to play chess \u25cf Get a short story published \u25cf Spend more mornings by the sea, with his wife, Meredith, a copy of The New Yorker, and plenty of black coffee \u25cfFish more river and saltwater flats
\nBrokaw insists he is an eternal optimist, even through the difficult journey of having multiple myeloma. A great story he used as illustrating that optimism was when Ronald Reagan used the great line “about a child comes down in the morning, and beneath the Christmas tree there is just an enormous pile of horse dung. And he starts thinking, ‘there must be a pony here somewhere’. That is kind of my attitude about life.”<\/p>\n

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Tom Brokaw, the former news anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News has written a new book, A Lucky Life Interrupted: A Memoir of Hope, in which he reflects back on his life and considers what he would still like to achieve. He was 75 years old and had extreme back pain due to … Continue reading “There Must be a Pony Here Somewhere, “A Lucky Life Interrupted”, by Tom Brokaw”<\/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":[19,15,25,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks-for-dad","category-audiobooks-in-general","category-based-on-true-story","category-interesting-audio-books","category-self-help-audio-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.audiobooksnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}