{"id":123,"date":"2011-04-16T05:29:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T19:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=123"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:59:46","slug":"123","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/123\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Gallacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-124\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/jack-gallacher1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"127\" \/>Not yet two years old and Jack Gallacher has already conquered battles many will never have to face.<\/p>\n<p>Jack was born with the rare condition of having only a few centimeters of oesophagus.\u00a0 Unable to feed, a tiny tube was inserted into his stomach soon after birth.<\/p>\n<p>Within three months, doctors at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital built him a new oesophagus, but his recovery has been marred by life threatening complications.<\/p>\n<p>Jack has been in Intensive Care four times in the past four months fighting numerous chest infections, a burst abscess and a collapsed lung.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at Herald Sun online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/tough-little-jacks-up-for-the-fight\/story-e6frf7jo-1226039906839\">Tough little Jack is up for the fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not yet two years old and Jack Gallacher has already conquered battles many will never have to face. Jack was born with the rare condition of having only a few centimeters of oesophagus.\u00a0 Unable to feed, a tiny tube was inserted into his stomach soon after birth. Within three months, doctors at The Royal Children&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/123\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-123","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\/123","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}