{"id":1716,"date":"2026-02-01T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2026-02-01T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:12:34","slug":"the-big-c-not-so-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"The big C, not so big"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The big C, not so big<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My sister Laura wrote the following haiku (and the above title) for me. I find myself cheered by it, even as I gear up for lung cancer surgery on February 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">                 Doctors work for you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">                 You are the warlord, sister<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">                 Kill the cancer cells<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was even moved to draw a cartoon about it. That\u2019s me on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image.jpeg 540w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you, sister. Wish me luck, my friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big C, not so big My sister Laura wrote the following haiku (and the above title) for me. I find myself cheered by it, even as I gear up for lung cancer surgery on February 9. Doctors work for you You are the warlord, sister Kill the cancer cells I was even moved to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[644,657,658,656,655],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-about-language-and-life","tag-cancer","tag-cartoon","tag-doctor","tag-haiku","tag-surgery"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}