{"id":53882,"date":"2014-09-08T14:50:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T19:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53882"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:52:31","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T19:52:31","slug":"walaker-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=53882","title":{"rendered":"Walaker cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/walaker.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-35306\" alt=\"walaker\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/walaker.bmp\" \/><\/a>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The Fargo mayor says he has checked into a local facility to help with his treatment for kidney cancer.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dennis Walaker was diagnosed earlier this summer with renal cell carcinoma. He said in a statement Monday that he\u2019s improving every day and will continue his \u201ccourse of treatment very soon.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The mayor of North Dakota\u2019s largest city says the first two weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatment seemed to go well, but he developed an adverse reaction to prescribed medication and was hospitalized.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Walaker says he returned home briefly upon leaving the hospital, but has since entered another facility. He was not specific.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Walaker says his family convinced him in July to see a doctor because he was losing weight. He was re-elected to a third term in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FARGO, N.D. (AP) \u2013 The Fargo mayor says he has checked into a local facility to help with his treatment for kidney cancer. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dennis Walaker was diagnosed earlier this summer with renal cell carcinoma. He said in a statement Monday that he\u2019s improving every day and will continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53889,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53882\/revisions\/53889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}