{"id":19439,"date":"2020-01-07T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=19439"},"modified":"2020-01-07T15:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T21:48:46","slug":"obit-watch-january-7-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=19439","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: January 7, 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/07\/books\/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Wurtzel<\/a>, author of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/36IaMlT\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prozac Nation<\/a><\/strong>. She was 52.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/07\/books\/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The writer David Samuels, a friend since childhood, said the cause was metastatic breast cancer, a disease that resulted from the BRCA genetic mutation. Ms. Wurtzel had a double mastectomy in 2015. After her diagnosis, she became an advocate for BRCA testing \u2014 something she had not had \u2014 and wrote about her cancer experience in The New York Times.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/07\/books\/elizabeth-wurtzel-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI could have had a mastectomy with reconstruction and skipped the part where I got cancer,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI feel like the biggest idiot for not doing so.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth Wurtzel, author of Prozac Nation. She was 52. The writer David Samuels, a friend since childhood, said the cause was metastatic breast cancer, a disease that resulted from the BRCA genetic mutation. Ms. Wurtzel had a double mastectomy in 2015. After her diagnosis, she became an advocate for BRCA testing \u2014 something she had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19443,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19439\/revisions\/19443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}