{"id":163454,"date":"2026-02-21T03:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:25:12","slug":"hillsborough-county-commissioner-announces-cancer-diagnosis-hillsborough-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/163454\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County commissioner announces cancer diagnosis | Hillsborough County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hillsborough County Commissioner Chris Boles has been diagnosed with throat cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Boles will begin treatment immediately and is confident he can continue to work with minimal interruption, he said in a media release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I value transparency, I intend to keep the details of my treatment private,\u201d Boles, first elected in 2024, said in the release. \u201cI want residents to know that I remain fully committed to serving our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He shared the news on his Facebook page last week along with gratitude for support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy wife and I know with prayers and with God on our side we will make it through this together,\u201d Boles wrote. \u201cWe are so blessed that it was caught very early.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hillsborough County Commissioner Chris Boles has been diagnosed with throat cancer. Boles will begin treatment immediately and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62737,276,78179,78180,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-163454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-chris-boles","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-hillsborough-county-commissioner","tag-public-official","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}