{"id":13682,"date":"2021-10-02T01:08:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T05:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=13682"},"modified":"2021-10-02T01:08:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T05:08:36","slug":"opinion-cancer-survivor-blows-the-whistle-on-toxic-positivity-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=13682","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Cancer survivor blows the whistle on &#8216;toxic positivity&#8217; &#8211; CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of 35, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with stage IV cancer. Doctors predicted that at best she had two years to live &#8212; essentially handing the Duke Divinity School professor a death sentence. Since then, she&#8217;s been on the receiving end of a maddening collection of cringey cliches presumably meant to encourage her, but which have only made her already terrifying situation more difficult, writes Kirsten Powers.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/30\/opinions\/toxic-positivity-and-cancer-survivor-column-powers\/index.html?utm_source=fark&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_content=link&amp;ICID=ref_fark\">Opinion: Cancer survivor blows the whistle on &#8216;toxic positivity&#8217; &#8211; CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of 35, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with stage IV&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[871,277,48],"class_list":["post-13682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cancer","tag-death","tag-health","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}