{"id":225747,"date":"2026-09-30T15:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightcolorectalcancer.org\/?post_type=regional-team&#038;p=225747"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T16:25:49","slug":"jj-singleton","status":"publish","type":"regional-team","link":"https:\/\/fightcolorectalcancer.org\/es\/regional-team\/jj-singleton\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Singleton\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1981, Hank Williams Jr wrote \u201cA Country Boy Can Survive,\u201d a song about how when things in the world got tough, the country folks would be the ones toughing it out. He had to be picturing people like JJ Singleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">JJ had all the signs of early age onset colorectal cancer and then some. When he was 27, he was having <a href=\"https:\/\/fightcolorectalcancer.org\/facts\/symptoms\/\">abdominal pain, found blood in his stool, was losing weight and had difficulty using the bathroom<\/a>. Like any immortal guy in their late twenties, he put off going to the doctor for a while. By the time he went to the doctor, he could see a tumor pulsating through his skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/fightcolorectalcancer.org\/story\/jacob-j-j-singleton\/\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px\"><strong>READ MORE<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1981, Hank Williams Jr wrote \u201cA Country Boy Can Survive,\u201d a song about how when things in the world got tough, the country folks would be the ones toughing it out. He had to be picturing people like JJ Singleton. 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