{"id":93405,"date":"2025-12-18T22:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93405\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:51:15","slug":"1st-grader-rings-bell-after-battle-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/93405\/","title":{"rendered":"1st grader rings bell after battle with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A first grader at Tatum Elementary in New Mexico celebrated beating cancer today with loved ones around her that she inspired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Adalee Torrez rang the bell this afternoon at the Joe Arrington Cancer Center after completing treatment on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She was diagnosed with B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in May of 2023 and quickly began treatment to fight the cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Her teacher, Martha Castanon, said she is inspired by Torrez\u2019s strength and finds her as an inspiration to others. She said she planned a class field trip for Torrez\u2019s bell ringing but a Christmas program and the holiday break made it to where not many people could make it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">However, she does plan to have a special bell ringing for Torrez in class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; A first grader at Tatum Elementary in New Mexico celebrated beating cancer today with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[43716,43719,43718,2622,168,170,169,2383,43717,43720],"class_list":{"0":"post-93405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-1st-grader","9":"tag-adalee-torrez","10":"tag-bell-rings","11":"tag-cancer","12":"tag-lubbock","13":"tag-lubbock-headlines","14":"tag-lubbock-news","15":"tag-new-mexico","16":"tag-tatum","17":"tag-tatum-elementary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}