{"id":95505,"date":"2025-12-25T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95505\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T06:12:09","slug":"florida-officials-offer-sympathy-to-former-uf-president-after-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95505\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida officials offer sympathy to former UF President after cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Elected officials at every level are offering condolences to former University of Florida president and former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse as he battles cancer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a statement on Wednesday, Governor Ron DeSantis said, \u201cOur hearts are with him and his loved ones during this incredibly difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier also offered a message of support, saying Sasse\u2019s faith and strength are an inspiration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sasse announced his diagnosis of stage four pancreatic cancer on social media on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Elected officials at every level are offering condolences to former University of Florida president&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12513,27512,1158,28,30,29,2496,4260,412,2512],"class_list":["post-95505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-alachua-county","tag-ben-sasse","tag-cancer","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gainesville","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-ron-desantis","tag-university-of-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95505","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=95505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}