{"id":789,"date":"2008-05-04T20:02:05","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T02:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/?p=789"},"modified":"2008-05-04T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T02:02:05","slug":"frisco-residents-pedal-toward-ms-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/04\/frisco-residents-pedal-toward-ms-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"Frisco residents pedal toward MS cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Star Community Newspapers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scntx.com\/articles\/2008\/04\/30\/breaking_news\/57.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>(link to full article)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"byline-detail\">By Ann Marie Shambaugh, Staff Writer<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Frisco resident Derek Smith said he was scared when he learned as a teen-ager that his father had multiple sclerosis. Smith and his family knew little about the disease that afflicted an otherwise healthy and fit man.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 18 years he has watched the disease of the central nervous system take its toll on his father.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Since [1990] we&rsquo;ve learned quite a bit about it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We spent a couple years trying to figure out what it meant, because it didn&rsquo;t seem like he was that different, but over two decades now it&rsquo;s to the point where he is wheelchair-bound and unable to work the same way he did before.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Star Community Newspapers (link to full article) By Ann Marie Shambaugh, Staff Writer Frisco resident Derek Smith said he was scared when he learned as a teen-ager that his father had multiple sclerosis. Smith and his family knew little <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/04\/frisco-residents-pedal-toward-ms-cure\/\"><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":[14,22],"tags":[55,78],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling-news","category-bike-ride","tag-frisco-texas","tag-ms150"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tok-cJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.texbiker.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}