{"id":393,"date":"2012-10-22T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T15:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/?p=393"},"modified":"2012-10-22T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T15:49:16","slug":"cummings-62-publishes-breast-cancer-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2012\/10\/22\/cummings-62-publishes-breast-cancer-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Cummings &#8217;62 Publishes Breast Cancer Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2012\/10\/Susan-Cummings-62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-394\" src=\"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/files\/2012\/10\/Susan-Cummings-62.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>Last week Susan Cummings \u201962 talked with the Daily Hampshire Gazette about her memoir, \u201cAdventures of a One-Breasted Woman: Reclaiming My Moxie After Cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/search\/2149611-95\/cancer-cummings-book-susan\">the interview<\/a> Cummings commented that she could not find any literature on life post-treatment and that was when she began to write.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope people see that they can get their confidence and joie de vivre back,\u201d said Cummings in response to what she hoped people would gain from reading her memoir.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen something bad happens in life, you have to trust in life that good things happen as well as bad,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cGrace happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cummings, who has recently relocated from New York City to Bernardston, Mass., says she wrote her book, \u201cin the spirit of helping other women find their own way through cancer \u2013 not to offer pat solutions or didactic advice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of Jerrey Roberts, gazettenet.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Susan Cummings \u201962 talked with the Daily Hampshire Gazette about her memoir, \u201cAdventures of a One-Breasted Woman: Reclaiming My Moxie After Cancer.&#8221; In the interview Cummings commented that she could not find any literature on life post-treatment and that was when she began to write. \u201cI hope people see that they can get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/2012\/10\/22\/cummings-62-publishes-breast-cancer-memoir\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cummings &#8217;62 Publishes Breast Cancer Memoir<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[32,34,36,35,33],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-author","category-alumni-news","tag-breast-cancer","tag-class-of-1962","tag-daily-hampshire-gazette","tag-northampton-school-for-girls","tag-susan-cummings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":395,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}