{"id":1189,"date":"2013-10-05T11:09:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T15:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=1189"},"modified":"2013-10-05T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T15:09:43","slug":"young-nebraska-fans-cancer-in-remission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/10\/05\/young-nebraska-fans-cancer-in-remission\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Nebraska fan&#8217;s cancer in remission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1190\" alt=\"jackhoffmanrun\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/10\/jackhoffmanrun.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/10\/jackhoffmanrun.jpg 576w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/10\/jackhoffmanrun-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You have probably heard of Jack Hoffman by now. The eight-year old was diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer while just five years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year Hoffman ran for a 69-yard touchdown in the Nebraska Cornhusker&#8217;s spring game. That feat earned him an ESPY and a meting with Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>This week Jack and his family got the best news of all.<\/p>\n<p>Jack\u2019s cancer is in remission.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Jmisv1Spck\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20131004\/LIVEWELL01\/131009303\/\" target=\"_blank\">to the\u00a0Omaha World-Tribune<\/a>, an MRI revealed that after 60 weeks of chemotherapy, the tumor in Hoffman\u2019s head has shrank. His father, Andy Hoffman, said he\u2019s \u201ccautiously optimistic\u201d about Jack\u2019s prognosis, and that doctors will remove the port under Jack\u2019s skin that delivers his chemotherapy next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe associates getting rid of that chemo port with getting his life back, his little boy life back,\u201d Andy Hoffman told the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You have probably heard of Jack Hoffman by now. The eight-year old was diagnosed with pediatric brain cancer while just five years of age. Earlier this year Hoffman ran for a 69-yard touchdown in the Nebraska Cornhusker&#8217;s spring game. That feat earned him an ESPY and a meting with Barack Obama. This week Jack and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[122,94],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-previews","8":"tag-jack-hoffman","9":"tag-nebraska-cornhuskers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}