{"id":985,"date":"2004-07-01T18:18:01","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T23:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/ben-duskin\/"},"modified":"2004-07-01T18:18:01","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T23:18:01","slug":"ben-duskin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/ben-duskin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Duskin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/wire\/US\/ap20040630_131.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Former Cancer Patient Debuts Video Game<\/a> [ap via abcnews]<\/div>\n<p>Ben Duskin has helped turn fighting cancer into a game. When the 9-year-old former leukemia patient was asked if he had an unrequited wish by the Make-A-Wish Foundation,  Ben requested a video game be made that fellow cancer sufferers could play to take their mind of the painful side effects of chemotherapy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>how odd, that the most inspirational stuff on the web seems to come from the children?  i hope i never grow up.<\/p>\n<p>to grab the game, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makewish.org\/ben\">go here<\/a> [make a wish].  it&#8217;s the selfless wishes that mean so much.  ok, maybe this isn&#8217;t totally selfless, but why is it that the kids are thinking of others more than the grumps?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Cancer Patient Debuts Video Game [ap via abcnews] Ben Duskin has helped turn fighting cancer into a game. When the 9-year-old former leukemia patient was asked if he had an unrequited wish by the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Ben requested a video game be made that fellow cancer sufferers could play to take their mind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}