{"id":190,"date":"2011-03-28T05:59:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T18:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=190"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:00:24","slug":"jarrad-howard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/jarrad-howard\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarrad Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-191\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/jarrad_225_px1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/>Jarrad Howard&#8217;s bizarre bone condition could have remained a mystery if it weren&#8217;t for him breaking his leg.\u00a0 After undergoing scans for\u00a0his fractured femur, RCH doctors discovered Jarrad&#8217;s bone was deteriorating.\u00a0 In fact, one of his hips was deeply disintegrated.<\/p>\n<p>Jarrad has been diagnosed with Gorham&#8217;s disease and is only one of 200 in the world\u00a0with the condition.\u00a0 RCH orthopaedic surgeons are working hard to help Jarrad combat the bone-eating disease.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story\u00a0at Herald Sun online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/ipad\/bone-of-contention\/story-fn6bfm6w-1226029004654\">Bone of contention for Jarrad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jarrad Howard&#8217;s bizarre bone condition could have remained a mystery if it weren&#8217;t for him breaking his leg.\u00a0 After undergoing scans for\u00a0his fractured femur, RCH doctors discovered Jarrad&#8217;s bone was deteriorating.\u00a0 In fact, one of his hips was deeply disintegrated. Jarrad has been diagnosed with Gorham&#8217;s disease and is only one of 200 in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/jarrad-howard\/\">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-190","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\/190","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=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}