{"id":284617,"date":"2025-11-26T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284617\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:08:08","slug":"he-suggested-we-go-to-a-quiet-room-to-talk-i-knew-that-was-not-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284617\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He suggested we go to a quiet room to talk. I knew that was not good news\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p role=\"text\" tabindex=\"0\" class=\"is_Paragraph font_caslonIonic _dsp-inline _bxs-border-box _ww-break-word _mt-0px _mr-0px _mb-0px _ml-0px _ff-f-family _fw-f-weight-3048 _fs-f-size-18 _lh-f-lineHeigh3500605 _col-c-grey_600 _select-auto _ws-normal\">Cancer\u2019s chief weapons, then, are surprise, fear and ruthless efficiency. No one knows for sure how long the tumour has been lodged and growing in my oesophagus. The nature of this particular beast is that it quietly bides its time, sinking its hooks into your soft tissue, expanding and spreading, and you don\u2019t get any symptoms until it\u2019s firmly established itself. It\u2019s almost admirable, the way it stealthily takes hold and doesn\u2019t announce itself until it\u2019s almost too late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cancer\u2019s chief weapons, then, are surprise, fear and ruthless efficiency. No one knows for sure how long the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[847,102,2960,3100,104,229,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-284617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-cancer","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-medicine","12":"tag-nhs","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}