{"id":4113,"date":"2008-08-19T00:59:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T00:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/08\/19\/cancer-stricken-swayze-puffs-away-on-a-cigarette-while-filming\/"},"modified":"2008-08-19T00:59:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T00:59:08","slug":"cancer-stricken-swayze-puffs-away-on-a-cigarette-while-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/08\/19\/cancer-stricken-swayze-puffs-away-on-a-cigarette-while-filming\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer-stricken Swayze puffs away on a cigarette while filming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>In his own words, he is a \u2018miracle man\u2019 who is fighting a winning battle against pancreatic cancer. But that still hasn\u2019t stopped actor Patrick Swayze from puffing on cigarettes between breaks from shooting his latest TV show.<br \/>\nThe Dirty Dancing star was given just weeks to live after being diagnosed with the disease in January but quickly set about returning to work, where he has looked anything but a man facing a death sentence.<br \/>\nBut our pictures show Swayze hasn\u2019t been able to kick his smoking habit. The actor openly smoked on the Chicago set of The Beast, in which he plays an FBI agent.<br \/>\nSince his diagnosis at the beginning of the year, Swayze is thought to have undergone radical chemotherapy.<br \/>\nThe 55-year-old recently branded himself  \u2018a miracle\u2019, for surviving the past five months after doctors diagnosed him with the disease.<br \/>\nThe Hollywood star was joined on the set of the A&#038;E drama by his wife Lisa Niemi.<br \/>\nIn The Beast, Swayze will play an unorthodox FBI agent being pursued by a secret Internal Affairs team.  The series is expected to air in the U.S. next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his own words, he is a \u2018miracle man\u2019 who is fighting a winning battle against pancreatic cancer. But that still hasn\u2019t stopped actor Patrick Swayze from puffing on cigarettes between breaks from shooting his latest TV show. The Dirty Dancing star was given just weeks to live after being diagnosed with the disease in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}