{"id":7788,"date":"2011-04-08T01:41:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T08:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=7788"},"modified":"2011-04-08T01:41:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T08:41:34","slug":"carnival-magic-st-jude-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=7788","title":{"rendered":"Magic Right Word for this Godmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice story. It&#8217;s about Lindsey Wilkerson. Until yesterday, we had no idea who Lindsey Wilkerson was, or is. Until today, you probably didn&#8217;t either. She is going to be the <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7797\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2011\/04\/carnival-magic-st-jude-hospital\/magic-8-400\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7797\" title=\"Magic-8-400\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Magic-8-400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Godmother of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnivalmagic.com\/\">Carnival&#8217;s Magic<\/a> at its ceremonial baptism in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comune.venezia.it\/flex\/cm\/pages\/ServeBLOB.php\/L\/EN\/IDPagina\/1\">Venice<\/a>, three weeks from Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>She has a greater calling in life. A cancer survivor from St. Jude Children&#8217;s Research Hospital in Memphis, she shares her story as part of her job at the hospital built by the late Danny Thomas. Two years ago, we were at St. Jude, not for the reason most people go there, but as tourists who remembered Danny Thomas, and the TV show that made him famous, to visit his museum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/cms\/fun\/stjude\/default.aspx\">Carnival pledged<\/a> to raise $3 million in three years for St. Jude. At last glance, the project has raised $570,000 in Year One, through a variety of programs, on ships and off. On May 1, in honor of the Magic&#8217;s Godmother, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carnival.com\/\">Carnival<\/a> will kick in another $50,000.<\/p>\n<p>The story of why Danny Thomas built this hospital (<a href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?s=St.+Jude\">click here to read<\/a> our blog about it) is a moving one.<\/p>\n<p>So is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stjude.org\/stjude\/v\/index.jsp?vgnextoid=45628eee9870d110VgnVCM1000001e0215acRCRD&amp;vgnextchannel=7f0b7ff0be118010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD&amp;SearchUrl=search_results.jsp&amp;QueryText=Lindsey%20Wilkerson\">Lindsey Wilkerson&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 10, she underwent three years of intensive chemotherapy. Many of her little colleagues didn&#8217;t make it, but she did. She graduated <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7802\" href=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/2011\/04\/carnival-magic-st-jude-hospital\/lindsey-wilkerson\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7802\" title=\"lindsey wilkerson\" src=\"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/lindsey-wilkerson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"316\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a>from high school, after thinking she would not. Seven years ago, she became a bride, after thinking she would not. And five years ago, she became a mother, after thinking she would not.<\/p>\n<p>Next month, she becomes a Godmother.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am alive today because of the world-class research and treatment at St. Jude,&#8221; she said in a statement. &#8220;The generous support of Carnival and its guests will help St. Jude continue to provide hope to children stricken with catastrophic illnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nice Godmother. Nice ship. Nice story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice story. It&#8217;s about Lindsey Wilkerson. Until yesterday, we had no idea who Lindsey Wilkerson was, or is. Until today, you probably didn&#8217;t either. She is going to be the Godmother of Carnival&#8217;s Magic at its ceremonial baptism in Venice, three weeks from Sunday. She has a greater calling in life. A&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=7788\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magic Right Word for this Godmother<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,25,19,15],"tags":[154,391,259,86,260,261,453,585,586,587],"class_list":["post-7788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-people","category-ships","category-stories","tag-carnival","tag-carnival-magic","tag-childrens-cancer","tag-cruise-ships","tag-danny-thomas","tag-fund-raising-cruises","tag-godmothers","tag-leukemia","tag-lindsey-wilkerson","tag-st-jude-hospital","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}