{"id":156,"date":"2011-04-06T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=156"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:00:45","slug":"adam-spehar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/adam-spehar\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Spehar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-157\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/300426-rchappeal2_225px1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"127\" \/>Both Adam and his father Ivan know what it&#8217;s like to spend long days at the RCH.\u00a0 Adam, one year old, is receiving his seventh round of chemotherapy for neuroblastoma, while his father is an electrician working on the new RCH construction site next door.<\/p>\n<p>While even the harshest chemicals can&#8217;t wipe the grin off cheeky Adam&#8217;s face, Ivan can&#8217;t shake the feeling that his son &#8211; or any child &#8211; shouldn&#8217;t be sick.\u00a0 But he knows that\u00a0by working hard to finish the $1 billion hospital, he can make a difference for future patients of the RCH.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at Herald Sun online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/bright-spark-wins-hearts-at-toughest-of-times\/story-fn7x8me2-1226034297439\">Bright spark wins hearts at toughest of times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Adam and his father Ivan know what it&#8217;s like to spend long days at the RCH.\u00a0 Adam, one year old, is receiving his seventh round of chemotherapy for neuroblastoma, while his father is an electrician working on the new RCH construction site next door. While even the harshest chemicals can&#8217;t wipe the grin off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/adam-spehar\/\">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-156","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\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}