{"id":1408,"date":"2026-02-19T15:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/it-may-not-always-look-like-it-but-im-not-giving-up\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:00:08","slug":"it-may-not-always-look-like-it-but-im-not-giving-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/02\/19\/it-may-not-always-look-like-it-but-im-not-giving-up\/","title":{"rendered":"It may not always look like it, but I\u2019m not giving up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/02\/19\/it-may-look-like-im-not-giving-up\/\" title=\"It may not always look like it, but I&#8217;m not giving up\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Image-from-iOS-5-800x300.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"This banner image for Ben Hofmeister&#039;s column &quot;Chairborne&quot; features a wheelchair at left and a beach scene at right.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"109440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several (OK, many) years ago, I was having lunch with a group of fellow Green Berets when a news story appeared on the TV. The report covered a recent tragedy, and during an interview with a survivor, it was mentioned that one of the victims had not survived because they had &#8220;given up.&#8221; This sparked [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/02\/19\/it-may-look-like-im-not-giving-up\/\">It may not always look like it, but I&#8217;m not giving up<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/columns\/2026\/02\/19\/it-may-look-like-im-not-giving-up\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several (OK, many) years ago, I was having lunch with a group of fellow Green Berets when a news story appeared on the TV. The report covered a recent tragedy, and during an interview with a survivor, it was mentioned that one of the victims had not survived because they had &#8220;given up.&#8221; This sparked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}