{"id":9917,"date":"2024-12-20T10:32:44","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9917"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:32:56","slug":"dizzle-ja-takes-on-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=9917","title":{"rendered":"Dizzle JA Takes on Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people consider a cancer diagnosis a death sentence. Not so for Dizzle JA who has released a defiant song about his fight with the killer disease.\u00a0 <strong><em>\u2018F..k Cancer\u2019<\/em><\/strong> is the name of the self-produced track which was released this month by his La-Fam Entertainment JA company.<\/p>\n<p>After experiencing months of severe pain, Dizzle JA was diagnosed with an \u201caggressive form of blood cancer\u201d. Unlike most people, he was not devastated by the news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the doctor told me the news, it didn\u2019t move me as I was ready for anything because the Creator already told me that I needed a full body cleansing which I used to do going home to Jamaica, because the food in the US is poison,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The deejay, who is from St. Thomas parish in eastern Jamaica, underwent weeks of chemotherapy. He also changed his diet and has pursued a strenuous exercise regimen.\u00a0 Dizzle JA then wrote \u2018F..k Cancer\u2019, a middle finger to a disease that kills thousands of people annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe song just came as a motivation to my family and famz, aka my fans, just letting them know I am a fighter and I\u2019ll be fighting this cancer, and they need to be strong with me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>With the support of his management, Dizzle JA participated in a Cancer Awareness Walk two months ago at Venice Beach in Los Angeles, where he is based. He is scheduled to partake in similar events in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people consider a cancer diagnosis a death sentence. Not so for Dizzle JA who has released a defiant song about his fight with the killer disease.\u00a0 \u2018F..k Cancer\u2019 is the name of the self-produced track which was released this month by his La-Fam Entertainment JA company. After experiencing months of severe pain, Dizzle JA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9918,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9917\/revisions\/9918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}