{"id":20298,"date":"2020-10-22T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=20298"},"modified":"2020-10-22T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T17:42:15","slug":"esu-student-ryan-smith-featured-by-people-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/esu-student-ryan-smith-featured-by-people-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"ESU Student Ryan Smith Featured by People Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University student and men\u2019s basketball player Ryan Smith, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in summer 2019, is featured by <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/couple-who-met-battling-same-cancer-now-dating-molly-gorczyca-ryan-smith\/?utm_campaign=peoplemagazine&#038;utm_content=new&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter.com&#038;utm_term=5f8f3f006d837300010f6ca5\">People Magazine<\/a> after a tweet by his girlfriend, Molly Gorczyca, about their meeting and relationship gathered more than 1.7 million likes by mid-October. <\/p>\n<p>Smith and Gorczyca, both collegiate athletes \u2013 Smith was the 2019 PSAC East Men\u2019s Basketball Freshman of the Year at ESU, and Gorczyca is a field hockey athlete at Rowan \u2013 met through their time receiving treatment for AML at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia. Gorczyca shared their story as part of the \u201chow it started\/how it\u2019s going\u201d trend which garnered national interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU student and men\u2019s basketball player Ryan Smith, who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in summer 2019, is featured by People Magazine after a tweet by his girlfriend, Molly Gorczyca, about their meeting and relationship gathered more than 1.7 million likes by mid-October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20300,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20298\/revisions\/20300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}