{"id":284622,"date":"2026-05-26T12:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284622\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:10:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:10:22","slug":"bruce-hamilton-responding-with-a-sense-of-humor-goes-a-long-way-in-dealing-with-realities-of-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284622\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Hamilton: Responding with a sense of humor goes a long way in dealing with realities of cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News4JAX anchor continues sharing cancer journey in \u2018Fighting Cancer on My Terms\u2019 series<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 As I continue to document my cancer journey, I have learned that not everything along that journey is serious. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">And that responding to things with a sense of humor goes a long way in helping deal with life\u2019s realities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">This goes back to when I still had my hair but started losing it strand by strand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">I started wondering what my follicle-less reality was going to be like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Would I look like that dude in the kids\u2019 game Wooly Willy, or some Hollywood star who rocks the bald pate?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Watch my transformation in the video above and share your best comparisons for me in the comments below (have fun but behave!)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorBruce Hamilton headshot<a class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__LinkBase-sc-1fnzlkn-9 eUojqd gMnWPT\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/team\/PACZ7W5PHJGPHOKHBWB2X2LCVM\/\" title=\"View Bruce Hamilton&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Hamilton<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 gnunoy bOlrXa\">This Emmy Award-winning television, radio and newspaper journalist has anchored The Morning Show for 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News4JAX anchor continues sharing cancer journey in \u2018Fighting Cancer on My Terms\u2019 series JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 As I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1158,115029,571,116,118,117,5436],"class_list":["post-284622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-cancer","tag-fighting-cancer-on-my-terms","tag-health","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-morning-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284622","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=284622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}