{"id":135659,"date":"2017-12-14T17:22:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T00:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135659"},"modified":"2017-12-15T01:05:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T08:05:39","slug":"cartoons-about-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/14\/cartoons-about-cancer.html","title":{"rendered":"Cartoons about Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a collection of XKCD cartoons by Randall Munroe during the several years when his girlfriend (and then wife) Megan was being treated for Stage 3 Breast Cancer. Funny, scary, poignant, neat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/xkcd-seven-years\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/J5wNeTkkqzoxAZ0O976LIkRFfhzgdiTnmCgC3u9zm6nDs0FfnuBTOSQ-sP3lWlXleU9-0GiMLiAV_p_B00ytDaxYpyFFpTqp44sg1dzjI8RerJxiVtlegLGV7O_7=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/xkcd-seven-years\/\">An Incredibly Touching Comic About Looking Ahead in Time Seven Years After Being Treated for Cancer<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nIn November 2010, Megan, then fianc\u00e9e (now wife) of Randall Munroe, the illustrator behind the brilliant webcomic xkcd, received the devastating diagnosis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/gtouy7w8fTG\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a collection of XKCD cartoons by Randall Munroe during the several years when his girlfriend (and then wife) Megan was being treated for Stage 3 Breast Cancer. 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