{"id":587,"date":"2012-11-10T06:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbbch.org\/2012\/11\/10\/spot-on\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:31:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T22:31:32","slug":"spot-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/?p=587","title":{"rendered":"SPOT ON!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/photo\/chepu01.JPG\" title=\"Hunting trip\" alt=\"Hunting trip\" align=\"top\" border=\"2\" height=\"216\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It seems wrong to say that Columbus elk hunter John Chepulis was lucky. He\u0092s lying in a Bozeman hospital intensive care room hooked up to a ventilator to help him breathe, heavily sedated and fighting pneumonia. But his situation could have been much worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This whole thing, to me, has been divine intervention from the beginning,&#8221; said Bonnie Chepulis, John&#8217;s wife.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/photo\/chepu03.jpg\" title=\"Life Flight\" alt=\"Life Flight\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\" height=\"313\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"502\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/pdf\/Injured_BCHM_member.pdf\" title=\"Chepulis story\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s the article<\/a> on John Chepulis&#8217; wreck. John is past president of the Montana BCH and was at the BCHA National Board Meeting in Eugene Oregon and Butte Montana.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep John and his family in your thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Peg, BCHA<\/p>\n<p>Nov 16 update<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">John has made remarkable progress toward recovery and has been moved to Billings to a state-of-the-art acute care hospital for patients who require time to heal from catastrophic injury or illness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o><\/o><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">His new address is:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">John Chepulis,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Advanced Care Hospital of Montana,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">3528 Gabel Rd,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif\">Billings MT 59102<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sbbchidaho.org\/photo\/chepu04.jpg\" title=\"area\" alt=\"area\" align=\"left\" border=\"2\" height=\"218\" hspace=\"2\" vspace=\"2\" width=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems wrong to say that Columbus elk hunter John Chepulis was lucky. He\u0092s lying in a Bozeman hospital intensive care room hooked up to a ventilator to help him breathe, heavily sedated and fighting pneumonia. But his situation could have been much worse. &#8220;This whole thing, to me, has been divine intervention from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-campfire","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10782,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/10782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbbch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}