{"id":3771,"date":"2018-07-23T19:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2018\/07\/23\/in-memoriam-gweneviere-mann\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T19:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:16:58","slug":"in-memoriam-gweneviere-mann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2018\/07\/23\/in-memoriam-gweneviere-mann\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Gweneviere Mann"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We were saddened to learn of the passing of Gweneviere\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Mann<\/span>, a StoryCorps friend and participant who came to us with her then-boyfriend (now husband), Yasir Salem, to share her remarkable story.\u00a0Gweneviere\u00a0lost her short-term memory following surgery to remove a brain tumor, and with Yasir, talked at StoryCorps about having to learn to navigate life together in a new way, and what it was like to run the New York City Marathon together.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storycorps.org\/listen\/gweneviere-mann-and-yasir-salem\/\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to their interview together here<\/a>, and watch the animation we created of their story, &#8220;Marking the Distance,&#8221; below.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Gweneviere died of a rare form of lung cancer in her home\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0morning, with Yasir by her side. \u00a0Gweneviere was a remarkable spirit. \u00a0She and Yasir have a lot to teach us all about love.\u00a0 Our condolences to Yasir and the rest of Gweneviere\u2019s family.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014 Dave Isay<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Source: SNPR Story Corps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were saddened to learn of the passing of Gweneviere\u00a0Mann, a StoryCorps friend and participant who came to us with her&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-YP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}