{"id":2161,"date":"2007-11-26T06:47:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/11\/26\/rising\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:38:37","slug":"rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/11\/26\/rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Patry Francis, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liars-Diary-Patry-Francis\/dp\/0525949909\">first novel was published last year<\/a>, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/simplywait.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/two-ounces-of-bliss.html\">dealt a challenge by life<\/a>. She&#8217;s rising admirably to the occasion. My heart goes to her.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three weeks ago I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Then the news got worse: a cat scan revealed spots on my liver, a possible metastasis. &#8230;So how does a lifelong neurotic and avowed hypochondriac deal with that kind of news?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more and be inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/simplywait.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/two-ounces-of-bliss.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Patry Francis, whose first novel was published last year, has been dealt a challenge by life. She&#8217;s rising admirably to the occasion. My heart goes to her. Three weeks ago I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. Then the news got worse: a cat scan revealed spots on my liver, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16,30],"tags":[178,179],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-nature","category-quotes","tag-cancer","tag-inspiration"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11547,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/11547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}