{"id":5722,"date":"2026-04-07T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:59:21","slug":"still-fighting-still-hurting-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=5722","title":{"rendered":"Still Fighting, Still Hurting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>He has outlived every prognosis, every whispered estimate spoken when doctors thought he couldn\u2019t hear. Thirty years after his diagnosis, Michael J. Fox appears smaller, his movements less controlled, his body marked by surgeries and scars that tell their own brutal story. The spinal operation, the tumor, the shattered bones from sudden falls have all carved away at his strength. When he admits, \u201cIt\u2019s getting tougher,\u201d it carries the weight of a man who has paid for every word with sleepless nights and relentless pain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yet what refuses to break is the part of him that keeps showing up. In \u201cStill,\u201d he allows the world to see the tremors, the stumbles, the raw fatigue\u2014and the fierce humor that keeps breaking through. He doesn\u2019t promise miracles or happy endings. Instead, he offers something harder: the courage to live honestly inside a body that\u2019s failing, and to keep choosing hope anyway.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has outlived every prognosis, every whispered estimate spoken when doctors thought he couldn\u2019t hear. Thirty years after his diagnosis, Michael J. Fox appears smaller, his movements less controlled, his &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5724,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5722\/revisions\/5724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}