{"id":25836,"date":"2009-12-29T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=25836"},"modified":"2009-12-29T19:46:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T02:46:12","slug":"cycling-road-misc-man-is-cycling-across-nation-to-remember-wife-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=25836","title":{"rendered":"Cycling Road Misc &#8211; Man is cycling across nation to remember wife, daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">David Alexander is making sure his story is heard, one city at a time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As he works his way across the country on his bicycle, Alexander has made it his goal to get the word out about suicide prevention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;ve been in big cities, small towns, everywhere,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Alexander said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;ve met a lot of people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His journey began in 2008 after he lost his wife Constance to Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma breast cancer. Just 11 months later, Alexander&#8217;s 17-year-old daughter Angela committed suicide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153When her mother died, it was like a part of Angela died,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Alexander explained. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Angela was extremely close to her.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.argus-press.com\/articles\/2009\/12\/28\/news\/news2.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Alexander is making sure his story is heard, one city at a time. As he works his way across the country on his bicycle, Alexander has made it his goal to get the word out about suicide prevention. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;ve been in big cities, small towns, everywhere,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Alexander said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I&#8217;ve met a lot of people.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-misc","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25837,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25836\/revisions\/25837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}