{"id":116,"date":"2006-02-20T14:01:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T22:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/?p=116"},"modified":"2006-02-20T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T22:09:26","slug":"courage-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2006\/02\/courage-and-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Courage and Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not many people are brave enough to go pub\u00adlic with intim\u00adate details of med\u00adic\u00adal prob\u00adlems, espe\u00adcially can\u00adcer, and to start going pub\u00adlic when the prob\u00adlem is dia\u00adgnosed, not just when it\u2019s cured. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cranesoftwrights.com\/bio\/gkholman.htm\">Ken Hol\u00adman<\/a> is one of those rare people who have done so, and in email with him shortly after he came out of hos\u00adpit\u00adal he wel\u00adcomed my doing my small bit to pub\u00adli\u00adcise what he went through, in the hopes that it will help oth\u00aders (from Ken: \u201cI know that I would have appre\u00adci\u00adated read\u00ading actu\u00adal testi\u00admo\u00adni\u00adals from patients rather than just cor\u00adpor\u00adate med\u00adic\u00adal reports\u201d).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t know, Ken has been a stal\u00adwart in the <span class=\"caps\">SGML<\/span>\/<span class=\"caps\">XML<\/span> com\u00admunity for many years, tak\u00ading part in vari\u00adous stand\u00adards com\u00admit\u00adtees as well as being a well-regarded teach\u00ader and speak\u00ader. He\u2019s had a bad run health-wise recently, cul\u00admin\u00adat\u00ading in a bout with pro\u00adstate can\u00adcer (which now appears to be effect\u00adively cured, though some side-effects still remain). The details are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cranesoftwrights.com\/bc\/\">Aware\u00adness of Male Can\u00adcers \u2013 my per\u00adson\u00adal stor\u00adies<\/a>; what may be start\u00adling is that even test res\u00adults with\u00adin the nor\u00admal range can indic\u00adate can\u00adcer that needs to be treated. Here\u2019s hop\u00ading that few people need to go through what Ken just has, but if you do, I hope you recov\u00ader well and quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not many people are brave enough to go pub\u00adlic with intim\u00adate details of med\u00adic\u00adal prob\u00adlems, espe\u00adcially can\u00adcer, and to start going pub\u00adlic when the prob\u00adlem is dia\u00adgnosed, not just when it\u2019s cured. Ken Hol\u00adman is one of those rare people who have done so, and in email with him shortly after he came out of \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2006\/02\/courage-and-cancer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cCour\u00adage and Cancer\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}