{"id":106102,"date":"2016-03-22T15:54:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/grand-junction-teen-dies-from-cancer\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T15:54:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T21:54:21","slug":"grand-junction-teen-dies-from-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/grand-junction-teen-dies-from-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Junction teen dies from cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5ffe7087-3e16-4a04-9303-9f50a720bd7c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5ffe7087-3e16-4a04-9303-9f50a720bd7c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5ffe7087-3e16-4a04-9303-9f50a720bd7c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5ffe7087-3e16-4a04-9303-9f50a720bd7c&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"427\" height=\"320\" alt=\"Delaney Clements, the Grand Junction teenager whose long battle with cancer became a national story and who got a surprise visit from international pop icon Taylor Swift, has died, said her mother.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Delaney Clements, the Grand Junction teenager whose long battle with cancer became a national story and who got a surprise visit from international pop icon Taylor Swift, has died, said her mother.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Denver Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>GRAND JUNCTION (AP) \u2013 A Grand Junction teenager whose long battle with cancer became a national story and who got a surprise visit from international pop icon Taylor Swift has died, said her mother.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction reported she was 13 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Delaney Clements\u2019 years-long fight with neuroblastoma rose to the spotlight in 2014 when a friend of the then-11-year-old was told she couldn\u2019t attend classes at Caprock Academy after shaving her head in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the friend\u2019s bald head broke the school\u2019s dress code. Delaney had gone bald because of chemotherapy treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The story spread across the nation like wildfire, inducing outrage and calls for the school to reconsider. Administrators later voted to allow exceptions to the dress code in certain circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith all the sorrow a heart can hold, we are beyond grief at the loss of the most amazing person in our lives,\u201d Delaney\u2019s mom, Wendy Campbell, posted on Facebook early Monday. \u201cPlease more than ever respect our privacy at this time as we mourn the loss of our beautiful angel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wendy Campbell had been posting in recent days that her daughter\u2019s condition was deteriorating.<\/p>\n<p>Delaney was visited by Taylor Swift in December as she began hospice care and after reaching out to the singer through a YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p>Swift and Delaney spent some time together in Grand Junction, posting photos of their visit on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaney Clements struggle with cancer struggle went national, met with Taylor Swift,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[120,13,265],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-106102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-colorado","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-politics"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106102"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=106102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}