{"id":415,"date":"2013-08-05T22:26:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T03:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplechara.wordpress.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2013-08-05T22:26:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T03:26:52","slug":"monday-muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Monday Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suleika Jaouad, writer of the New York Times column <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/category\/voices-2\/life\/\"><em>Life, Interrupted<\/em><\/a> on the Well blogs, is Prabal Gurung&#8217;s first <a href=\"http:\/\/prabalgurung.com\/the-journal-view.php?id=470&amp;db=0#470\">Monday Muse<\/a> (according to her Facebook page)! Truthfully, she&#8217;s such an inspiration to everyone, including me. I started reading her column when it began early last year in the Times, and I truly appreciated the insight she gave on young adults with cancer. Being a &#8220;young adult&#8221; is already a tricky age, but to compound a grave, life-threatening disease on top of that had to be devastating for her. Yet now she&#8217;s basically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secretsofcancerhood.com\/\">an ambassador<\/a> for others with cancer, offering starkly honest thoughts on her experiences to her audience. As someone who wants to go into the pediatric oncology field in the future, I often think of cancer cases in relation to young children. But through her column, I&#8217;ve gotten a little glimpse of what it&#8217;s like to deal with cancer at such a pivotal age&#8230; the age where you feel like your adult life is just beginning, yet you still can&#8217;t wait to get home on breaks to give your parents hugs and spend a night in your childhood room. Yeah, I definitely agree with Prabal Guring: Suleika is a wonderful muse to us all.<\/p>\n<p>Also, happy birthday to my little sister! I think that for all who know her would agree with me that she is also a perfect Monday Muse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suleika Jaouad, writer of the New York Times column Life, Interrupted on the Well blogs, is Prabal Gurung&#8217;s first Monday Muse (according to her Facebook page)! Truthfully, she&#8217;s such an inspiration to everyone, including me. I started reading her column when it began early last year in the Times, and I truly appreciated the insight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,29,32,121,122,138,139,147,168,190,197,222,229,232],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecharalife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}