{"id":38,"date":"2013-01-01T05:22:08","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=38"},"modified":"2013-02-05T05:45:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T05:45:03","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been diagnosed with stage 4, metastatic colorectal cancer in October 2012, 3 days after my 44th birthday. There is no cure, but I am determined to go down the road less travelled to find one. I have setup this blog to document my journey and hopefully help others in the process.<\/p>\n<p>I have studied Computer Science, but was given the option to do a double science degree at Monash Uni. I chose chemistry and ended up majoring in Organic a Bio Chemistry. Never thought that I would find a use for these subjects, but I am now finding them to be innvaluable in my search for a potential colorectal cancer cure.<\/p>\n<p>My view is that if there is a cure, it does not lie with traditional chemo, but with the immune system. Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been diagnosed with stage 4, metastatic colorectal cancer in October 2012, 3 days after my 44th birthday. There is no cure, but I am determined to go down the road less travelled to find one. I have setup &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/?p=38\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcrc4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}