{"id":79272,"date":"2020-02-03T04:31:17","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T09:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=79272"},"modified":"2020-02-03T04:31:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T09:31:24","slug":"megadeth-dave-mustaine-is-cancer-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=79272","title":{"rendered":"MEGADETH &#8211; Dave Mustaine Is Cancer Free"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/N2-Dg0TihGI\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Speaking to the crowd during <strong>MEGADETH&#8217;s <\/strong>concert on Friday, January 31st in London, Mustaine issed this update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8220;About a year ago, we were working on our new album back in Franklin, Tennessee, and I started to feel some pain over here [points to his throat]. So I went to the doctor and he said, &#8216;Dave, you have cancer.&#8217; And I went, &#8216;Fuck! I have cancer.&#8217; And I was so shocked. At first, I thought, &#8216;Am I afraid?&#8217; And then I said, &#8216;No. I&#8217;m fucking pissed.&#8217; And we stopped the record; we stopped everything. I went into treatment for cancer. It was 51 radiation treatments and nine chemo treatments. And when it was all said and done, every day I would think, &#8216;I can&#8217;t face not playing again. I can&#8217;t face not playing again.&#8217; So I would pray. I know a lot of you guys know that I pray. I say that in [our song] &#8216;Peace Sells&#8217;. I pray every day. I say that in the song. I&#8217;ve said it since the second record. But I thought about you guys every day too. And I thought about my family. And I got this power from you guys. And I just kept thinking about it. And on October 16th, I went to go see the doctor, and he said, &#8216;You&#8217;re 100 percent free of cancer.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">You can watch the entire Megadeth performance above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the crowd during MEGADETH&#8217;s concert on Friday, January 31st in London, Mustaine issed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79273,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79272\/revisions\/79273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}