{"id":19302,"date":"2019-02-20T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19302"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T15:11:00","slug":"stories-of-african-american-women-aging-with-hiv-my-life-wasnt-what-i-hoped-it-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/stories-of-african-american-women-aging-with-hiv-my-life-wasnt-what-i-hoped-it-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories of African-American women aging with HIV: \u2018My life wasn\u2019t what I hoped it to be\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div style=\"width: 764px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.theconversation.com\/files\/259750\/original\/file-20190219-43273-wxfz7j.jpg?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&amp;q=45&amp;auto=format&amp;w=754&amp;fit=clip\" width=\"754\" height=\"539\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\">Sophia Harrison has lived with epilepsy, breast cancer and HIV and is surviving all three.<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"attribution\"><span class=\"source\">Aamir Khuller<\/span>,\u00a0<a class=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sophia Harrison, 51, is a single mother of two, with an extended family to support. She has lived with epilepsy her entire life; she suffers from hypertension; and she is a breast cancer survivor.<\/p>\n<p>Yet more challenging than any of these was learning she was HIV-positive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was crying for at least six months,\u201d she said of learning she was HIV positive 10 years ago. \u201cIt hurt me real bad.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/stories-of-african-american-women-aging-with-hiv-my-life-wasnt-what-i-hoped-it-to-be-111804\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sophia Harrison, 51, is a single mother of two, with an extended family to support. She has lived with epilepsy her entire&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}