{"id":1301484,"date":"2018-12-15T09:36:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1801691"},"modified":"2018-12-15T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T16:36:41","slug":"blake-shelton-funds-cancer-research-in-aspens-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/blake-shelton-funds-cancer-research-in-aspens-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton Funds Cancer Research in Aspen\u2019s Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:324843?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">15m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>When Aspen Van Horn was five months old, she\u2019d been diagnosed with a neuroblastoma tumor. She went on to have two blood transfusions, three rounds of chemo and surgery to remove most of the tumor, according to officials at the Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Because of all that treatment, Aspen will turn three in January.<\/p>\n<p>She is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/blake-shelton\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Shelton<\/a>\u2019s cousin. So when she was battling her blastoma, Shelton stepped in with $600,000 in 2016. And now the hospital\u2019s cancer research program is being named after Shelton.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Oklahoma native and country music star,<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blakeshelton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@blakeshelton<\/a>, establishes the Blake Shelton Cancer Research Program in honor of his cousin, Aspen Van Horn. You can support the research program here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IZ7XLrB7rO\">https:\/\/t.co\/IZ7XLrB7rO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/blakeshelton?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#blakeshelton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/cancersucks?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cancersucks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/defeatchildhoodcancer?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#defeatchildhoodcancer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3bkbwT0tX0\">pic.twitter.com\/3bkbwT0tX0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Childrens Hosp Found (@okchf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okchf\/status\/1072208653623681026?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are so thankful for Blake\u2019s support in defeating childhood cancer,\u201d said hospital chairman of the board Chip Keating. \u201cWe have what I would consider to be one of the top cancer centers in America here at our footsteps, providing the best care possible for our kids with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research program will help us further our mission to see more kids ring the bell, symbolizing the end of active treatment and the beginning of a life free of cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hospital reportedly treats roughly 234,000 patients each year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1801691\/blake-shelton-funds-cancer-research-in-aspens-honor\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 15m ago When Aspen Van Horn was five months old, she\u2019d been diagnosed with a neuroblastoma tumor. She went on to have two blood transfusions, three rounds of chemo and surgery to remove most of the tumor, according to officials at the Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation. Because of all that treatment, Aspen will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1301484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 04:17:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}