{"id":451,"date":"2012-03-27T14:01:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/03\/27\/profile-in-courage-senior-perrin-thompson-writes-about-her-battle-with-cancer\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:43:30","slug":"profile-in-courage-senior-perrin-thompson-writes-about-her-battle-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/profile-in-courage-senior-perrin-thompson-writes-about-her-battle-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile in Courage: Senior Perrin Thompson writes about her battle with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2326\" style=\"width: 164px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/perrin-thompson.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2326\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2326 lazyload\" title=\"perrin-thompson\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/perrin-thompson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 154px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 154\/216;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perrin Thompson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In every life, there are turning points that shape people into who they are and who they will become. But few predict that cancer will become one of those turning points. But that\u2019s what happened to Perrin Thompson, a Furman senior from Richmond, Va., who writes about her experiences battling cancer as a college undergraduate.\u00a0 Her piece appeared in the March 27 \u201cGuest Voices\u201d of <em>The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/guest-voices\/post\/despite-cancer-god-is-good\/2012\/03\/26\/gIQAgfjXcS_blog.html\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In every life, there are turning points that shape people into who they are and who they will become. But few predict that cancer will become one of those turning points. But that\u2019s what happened to Perrin Thompson, a Furman senior from Richmond, Va., who writes about her experiences battling cancer as a college undergraduate.\u00a0 Her piece appeared in the March 27 \u201cGuest Voices\u201d of\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}