{"id":37379,"date":"2025-03-30T07:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T07:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/squaring-up-to-death-after-my-cancer-diagnosis-gave-me-a-deeper-appreciation-of-life-matt-forde\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T07:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T07:30:14","slug":"squaring-up-to-death-after-my-cancer-diagnosis-gave-me-a-deeper-appreciation-of-life-matt-forde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/squaring-up-to-death-after-my-cancer-diagnosis-gave-me-a-deeper-appreciation-of-life-matt-forde\/","title":{"rendered":"Squaring up to death after my cancer diagnosis gave me a deeper appreciation of life | Matt Forde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m with Lauren Laverne: surviving the disease can lead to a newfound resilience and love of simply being alive<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Laverne says she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj92mlp80z2o\">loves her life<\/a> more now that she\u2019s had cancer. I know exactly what she means. Imagine you\u2019re diagnosed with cancer. Do you think you\u2019d look back on the moment as one of the best of your life?<\/p>\n<p>It sounds bonkers if you\u2019ve not been through it, but it\u2019s how I feel. My wedding day beats it. As does Stuart Pearce\u2019s penalty against Spain in Euro \u201996, Nottingham Forest getting promoted at Wembley and Oasis reuniting. But those are in everyone\u2019s top five, so let\u2019s set them aside.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/mar\/30\/squaring-up-to-death-after-my-cancer-diagnosis-gave-me-a-deeper-appreciation-of-life\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m with Lauren Laverne: surviving the disease can lead to a newfound resilience and love of simply being alive Lauren Laverne says she loves her life more now that she\u2019s had cancer. I know exactly what she means. Imagine you\u2019re diagnosed with cancer. Do you think you\u2019d look back on the moment as one of &#8230; <a title=\"Squaring up to death after my cancer diagnosis gave me a deeper appreciation of life | Matt Forde\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/30\/squaring-up-to-death-after-my-cancer-diagnosis-gave-me-a-deeper-appreciation-of-life-matt-forde\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Squaring up to death after my cancer diagnosis gave me a deeper appreciation of life | Matt Forde\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}