{"id":1188,"date":"2011-11-14T04:21:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T17:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:58:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:58:24","slug":"natasha-sits-exam-at-rch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/natasha-sits-exam-at-rch\/","title":{"rendered":"Natasha sits her final Year 12 exam at RCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1195\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2011\/11\/14\/natasha-sits-exam-at-rch\/129410-natasha-tripp-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1195 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/11\/129410-natasha-tripp1-290x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Natasha sits her final Year 12 exam. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bendigo Senior Secondary College student Natasha Tripp will sit her final Year 12 exam today at the Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital. Born with cystic fibrosis, 18-year-old Natasha has spent her life moving in and out of the RCH.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges she has faced, Natasha has\u00a0tackled her final year at high school with courage, ignoring suggestions of spreading year 12 over two years.<\/p>\n<p>Natasha\u2019s dad Philip said \u201cShe&#8217;s been in hospital for two weeks at a time, every month or so. But she just keeps going. I am very very proud of her.&#8221; Nurses and fellow patients are sure to be celebrating with Natasha after her last exam today. Natasha plans a gap year next year, before studying physiotherapy or exercise science in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Natasha Tripp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/hospital-exam-room-fine-for-teen-battler\/story-fn7x8me2-1226193131027\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read Natasha\u2019s story in the Herald Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Tripp has spent most of her life in and out of the Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital with cystic fibrosis. This week she sat her final year 12 exam at the RCH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}