{"id":287508,"date":"2026-05-28T13:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287508\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:08:09","slug":"bruce-hamilton-cancer-is-a-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/287508\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Hamilton: Cancer is a thief"},"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 Cancer is a thief. It steals health, joy and loved ones. And it steals friends, old and new. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">It acts as a time bandit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">As I continue to chronicle my cancer journey, I want to share the story of a man I met in chemotherapy. The sad thing is that cancer robbed me of a chance to get to know him better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">That said, I believe that cancer might take a life, but it can\u2019t keep that person from living on in your heart.<\/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 Cancer is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1158,115029,571,116,118,117,5436],"class_list":["post-287508","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\/287508","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=287508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}