{"id":478622,"date":"2026-02-19T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478622\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T21:46:07","slug":"paralyzed-athlete-who-inspired-mlb-star-now-faces-devastating-cancer-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/478622\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralyzed athlete who inspired MLB star now faces devastating cancer diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; In 2024, Local 12 introduced viewers to David Iery, who was paralyzed at 17 following a slide at home plate. The story, titled \u201cThe Save,\u201d detailed how a Major League Baseball player helped save his life.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Iery is facing a new challenge: Stage 4 cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Duane Pohlman revisits Iery\u2019s story and the resilience that many have described as heroic, exploring what comes next in his fight. Watch Thursday on Local 12 News at 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI (WKRC) &#8211; In 2024, Local 12 introduced viewers to David Iery, who was paralyzed at 17 following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-478622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}