{"id":8274,"date":"2016-05-06T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=8274"},"modified":"2018-10-23T08:18:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:18:24","slug":"for-a-daily-dose-of-inspiration-when-breath-becomes-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/for-a-daily-dose-of-inspiration-when-breath-becomes-air\/","title":{"rendered":"For a daily dose of inspiration: When Breath Becomes Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/05\/BreathBecomesAir.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8275\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2016\/05\/BreathBecomesAir.jpg\" alt=\"BreathBecomesAir\" width=\"180\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a>At the age of 36 and with nearly a decade\u2019s worth of training as a neurosurgeon under his belt, Dr. Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. In an instant, he went from a doctor treating the sick to a patient struggling to live and the life that he and his wife had imagined for themselves disappeared. As a result of the diagnosis, Kalanithi delved into some profound questions: What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future becomes a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child and cultivate one life as another quickly fades away? In <em>When Breath Becomes Air<\/em>, Dr. Kalanithi answers these questions, incorporating his own personal transformations throughout the years.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kalanithi died last year in the process of writing this book. However, his incredibly poignant words live on as a beacon for us all. <em>When Breath Becomes Air<\/em> tells the story of Kalanithi\u2019s ability to face mortality; letting it change both everything and nothing about life at the same time. Find it in the Popular Reading Collection today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of 36 and with nearly a decade\u2019s worth of training as a neurosurgeon under his belt, Dr. Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. In an instant, he went from a doctor treating the sick &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/for-a-daily-dose-of-inspiration-when-breath-becomes-air\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-reading-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8276,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8274\/revisions\/8276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}