{"id":63842,"date":"2020-09-24T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-we-must-strive-to-find-a-cure-for-alzheimers\/"},"modified":"2020-09-24T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T06:30:00","slug":"opinion-we-must-strive-to-find-a-cure-for-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-we-must-strive-to-find-a-cure-for-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: We must strive to find a cure for Alzheimer&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease and dementia are thieves that rob family members of their cherished memories. I learned about Alzheimers disease when my great-grandmother, Mama Dot, could not remember the names of her children. We must strive to survive by finding a cure. #walk2endalz<\/p>\n<p><em>Aaron Young,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Juneau<\/em><\/p>\n<p><ins><em>&#8226; Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter<\/a>.<\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease and dementia are thieves that rob family members of their cherished memories. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":63843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63842"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}