{"id":1268,"date":"2023-08-21T17:42:14","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2023-08-22T01:06:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T00:06:22","slug":"a-poets-laryngectomy-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/a-poets-laryngectomy-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poet&#8217;s Laryngectomy Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warwick Smith had a laryngectomy in December 2022 after a diagnosis of Stage 4 cancer of the larynx. Without the operation his life expectancy was just 6 months. He has chronicled his journey, from diagnosis through treatment to recovery, with a series of 20 poems, each written at the time of an event, capturing his emotions.<\/p>\n<p>The poems have now been published in a book, available via Amazon. Proceeds will be donated to Warwick&#8217;s laryngectomy support group, The Oldham Quiet Ones, which is a registered charity and affiliated to NALC. Please support this worthwhile cause.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase the book click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B0CD9BF773?ref_=cm_sw_r_ud_dp_NC1E2YD66QA3B53NF2ZM_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warwick Smith had a laryngectomy in December 2022 after a diagnosis of Stage 4 cancer of the larynx. Without the operation his life expectancy was just 6 months. He has chronicled his journey, from diagnosis through treatment to recovery, with a series of 20 poems, each written at the time of an event, capturing his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laryngectomy.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}