{"id":1583,"date":"2012-06-26T01:52:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T01:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arthritisaustralia.com.au\/wordpress\/media-release-a-brave-womans-refusal-to-accept-defeat-22-july-2010\/"},"modified":"2017-09-25T06:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T06:00:22","slug":"media-release-a-brave-womans-refusal-to-accept-defeat-22-july-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/media-release-a-brave-womans-refusal-to-accept-defeat-22-july-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Release &#8211; A brave Woman&#8217;s refusal to accept defeat &#8211; 22 July 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>A BRAVE WOMAN&#8217;S REFUSAL TO ACCEPT DEFEAT<br \/>\n&#8216;Enemy within&#8217; by Karen Ager<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h6><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve thought a lot about my first IV infusion; about the isolation of disease and the loneliness of the moment when the sickly green curtain is pulled across and you&#8217;re shut out from the rest of the world. It&#8217;s a moment of no control; when there&#8217;s not much choice anymore, just a road map of what you have to do and a landscape of obstacles to overcome.&#8221;<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>To the world around her, young Karen Ager had an enviable life and future ahead &#8211; model looks, a killer body and an outgoing personality. But unknown to everyone, including Karen, was that she was carrying a crippling disease that would change the course of her life completely.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To read the full media release <a href=\"http:\/\/arthritisaustralia.com.au\/images\/stories\/documents\/news\/other_2011\/Enemy_Within_Media_Release.pdf\">click\u00a0<strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<samp><em>Reviewed and updated\u00a0June 2012<\/em><\/samp>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BRAVE WOMAN&#8217;S REFUSAL TO ACCEPT DEFEAT &#8216;Enemy within&#8217; by Karen Ager &#8220;I&#8217;ve thought a lot about my first IV infusion; about the isolation of disease and the loneliness of the moment when the sickly green curtain is pulled across and you&#8217;re shut out from the rest of the world. It&#8217;s a moment of no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-category"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.arthritisaustralia.org.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}