{"id":545,"date":"2007-09-07T23:12:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-08T05:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/archives\/545"},"modified":"2007-09-07T23:18:50","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T05:18:50","slug":"survivor-rides-to-raise-funds-for-cancer-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/survivor-rides-to-raise-funds-for-cancer-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Survivor rides to raise funds for cancer awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Brownsville Herald <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownsvilleherald.com\/news\/boren_79966___article.html\/cancer_ride.html\">(full article)<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>By VICTORIA MANNING, THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD<\/p>\n<p>Buddy Boren had not ridden a bike since he was 17, but that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop him from riding one for good cause.<\/p>\n<p>After surviving a tough battle with skin cancer, the 64-year-old Dallas resident wants to be an inspiration to cancer patients, encouraging them to stay strong in the face of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>Boren spreads his message by riding a bicycle across Texas and the United States. He embarked on his sixth ride Wednesday. Departing from Brownsville, he plans to arrive in Darrouzett, Texas in two weeks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d taking him from the southernmost part of the state to the northernmost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Brownsville Herald (full article) By VICTORIA MANNING, THE BROWNSVILLE HERALD Buddy Boren had not ridden a bike since he was 17, but that didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop him from riding one for good cause. After surviving a tough battle with <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/07\/survivor-rides-to-raise-funds-for-cancer-awareness\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-8N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}