{"id":178,"date":"2011-04-01T05:54:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=178"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:00:32","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:00:32","slug":"lorenzo-fonua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/lorenzo-fonua\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Fonua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-179\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/lorenzo3_225_px1-147x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"160\" \/>RCH staff have become &#8220;surrogate mothers&#8221; to bouncy Lorenzo, according to his mother Jessica.\u00a0 Ten-month-old Lorenzo has spent almost all of his life in the RCH with Hirschsprung&#8217;s disease and short gut.<\/p>\n<p>Despite scars on his belly where doctors have repeatedly opened him up to remove diseased sections of his bowel, Lorenzo looks a picture of health.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzo is a smiley fixture of the hospital and continues to receive the best care possible.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at Herald Sun online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/brave-lorenzo-defies-odds-in-long-fight\/story-fn7x8me2-1226031598897\">Brave Lorenzo defies odds in long fight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCH staff have become &#8220;surrogate mothers&#8221; to bouncy Lorenzo, according to his mother Jessica.\u00a0 Ten-month-old Lorenzo has spent almost all of his life in the RCH with Hirschsprung&#8217;s disease and short gut. Despite scars on his belly where doctors have repeatedly opened him up to remove diseased sections of his bowel, Lorenzo looks a picture &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/lorenzo-fonua\/\">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-178","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\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}