
{"id":1449,"date":"2007-12-13T07:46:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/12\/13\/news-brief-thompson-cancer-free\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T07:48:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T15:48:58","slug":"news-brief-thompson-cancer-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/12\/13\/news-brief-thompson-cancer-free\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: Thompson cancer-free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chatham County Commissioner Carl E. Thompson reports that his doctors have pronounced him cancer-free and that he will resume his commissioner duties at the upcoming Dec. 17th meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am most grateful that the prostate cancer was found in the early stages and that the surgery to remove it completely was successful. My urologist, Dr. Cary Robertson from Duke University Hospital, reports that I am now cancer-free,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Thompson says he has little chance of relapse. He thanked the people of Chatham County who have sent him cards and kind wishes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most of all, I am thankful for their prayers, which meant a great deal to me and my family.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He added that he looks forward to resuming work as commissioner. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know that there are critical issues to be addressed and I am ready to take on those challenges.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chatham County Commissioner Carl E. Thompson reports that his doctors have pronounced him cancer-free and that he will resume his commissioner duties at the upcoming Dec. 17th meeting. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am most grateful that the prostate cancer was found in the early stages and that the surgery to remove it completely was successful. My urologist, Dr&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}