{"id":12449,"date":"2009-04-24T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/advances_elusive_in_the_long_drive_to_cure_cancer\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:57:41","slug":"advances_elusive_in_the_long_drive_to_cure_cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12449","title":{"rendered":"Advances Elusive in the Long Drive to Cure Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971, flush with the nation\u2019s success in putting a man on the Moon, President Richard M. Nixon announced a new goal. Cancer would be cured by 1976, the bicentennial.<\/p>\n<p>When 1976 came and went, the date for a cure, or at least substantial progress, kept being put off. It was going to happen by 2000, then by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Now, President Barack Obama, discussing his plans for health care, has vowed to find \u201ca cure\u201d\u009d for cancer in our time and said that, as part of the economic stimulus package, he would increase federal money for cancer research by a third for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/24\/health\/policy\/24cancer.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1971, flush with the nation\u2019s success in putting a man on the Moon, President Richard M. Nixon announced a new goal. Cancer would be cured by 1976, the bicentennial. When 1976 came and went, the date for a cure,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12449\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-health-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}