{"id":12872,"date":"2012-02-16T15:11:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12872"},"modified":"2012-02-16T15:11:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:11:45","slug":"former-nfl-player-fights-lung-cancer-to-honor-late-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12872","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Player Fights Lung Cancer To Honor Late Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL player <strong>Christ Draft<\/strong>, 35, has been in the news a lot recently because of the tragic death of his wife, <strong>Lakeasha Monique Rutledge<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Draft<\/strong>, who died from lung cancer on Dec. 27, just a month after the couple were married. <strong>Draft<\/strong> says his wife was not a smoker. She found out about the cancer when it was in stage 4 and had no symptoms beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>True to his spirit as founder of the Chris Draft Family Foundation, which seeks to uplift communities, <strong>Draft<\/strong> is now turning his attention to detecting lung cancer earlier.<\/p>\n<p>He and his late wife founded Team Draft, which he launched at the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NFL player Christ Draft, 35, has been in the news a lot recently because of the tragic death of his wife, Lakeasha Monique Rutledge. Draft, who died from lung cancer on Dec. 27, just a month after the couple were married. Draft says his wife was not a smoker. She found out about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}