{"id":18769,"date":"2016-12-22T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T15:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18769"},"modified":"2016-12-22T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T15:52:54","slug":"tragic-and-uplifting-story-comes-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18769","title":{"rendered":"Tragic and uplifting story comes to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17xp-jeopardy_web1-master768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18687\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17xp-jeopardy_web1-master768-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17xp-jeopardy_web1-master768-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/17xp-jeopardy_web1-master768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Millions of Americans knew how this story would end.<\/p>\n<p>A brilliant young woman competed on a popular TV game show while suffering from terminal cancer. She competed for nearly a week on the show, piling up winnings exceeding $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Then was dethroned as champion. Then she died on Dec. 5, a bit more than week before the taped episodes were aired. Her family, adhering to her wishes, donated her winnings to researching cures for the cancer that would take her life.<\/p>\n<p>Her name was Cindy Stowell, a 41-year-old computer genius from Austin, Texas. She competed on &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; My wife and I were among the Americans who watched her compete and cheered for her every step of the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/tv\/news\/%e2%80%98jeopardy%e2%80%99-host-alex-trebek-pays-tribute-to-contestant-who-died-of-cancer\/ar-BBxr35v?li=BBnb7Kz\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/tv\/news\/%e2%80%98jeopardy%e2%80%99-host-alex-trebek-pays-tribute-to-contestant-who-died-of-cancer\/ar-BBxr35v?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were filled with terribly mixed emotions Wednesday afternoon while watching\u00a0Cindy&#8217;s final appearance.\u00a0\u00a0We wanted her to win. We also waited to see how the show&#8217;s host, Alex Trebek, would pay tribute to her after her run had concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Trebek did so beautifully at the end of the show. I welled up listening him talk about Cindy&#8217;s &#8220;lifelong desire&#8221; to be a &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; contestant. Her story broke my heart and lifted my spirits, as I&#8217;m sure it did all those who followed her brief journey in the national limelight.<\/p>\n<p>She\u00a0was able to fulfill her dream and died a champion.<\/p>\n<p>Godspeed, Cindy Stowell.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of Americans knew how this story would end. A brilliant young woman competed on a popular TV game show while suffering from terminal cancer. She competed for nearly a week on the show, piling up winnings exceeding $100,000. Then was dethroned as champion. Then she died on Dec. 5, a bit more than week &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tragic and uplifting story comes to an end<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6770,834,6769,6768],"class_list":["post-18769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-alex-trebek","tag-cancer-research","tag-cindy-stowell","tag-jeopardy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18770,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18769\/revisions\/18770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}