{"id":1912,"date":"2012-04-04T06:42:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T20:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:51:21","slug":"drake-saul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/drake-saul\/","title":{"rendered":"Drake is perfect in every way"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1913\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1913\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/04\/04\/drake-saul\/936170-cassi-van-den-dungen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1913\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1913 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/04\/936170-cassi-van-den-dungen-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model Cassi van den Dungen with her son Drake. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Six-month-old RCH patient Drake Saul has recently had surgery to repair a cleft lip and palate. Drake&#8217;s mum Cassi van den Dungen from the 2009 series of <em>Australia&#8217;s Next Top Model <\/em>said motherhood had been an adventure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The best part has been seeing him smile&#8221;\u00a0Cassi said.<\/p>\n<p>RCH plastic surgeon David Chong said cleft palates occurred very early in pregnancy when for some reason the face didn&#8217;t completely fuse.<\/p>\n<p>The four-hour surgery involved making Drake&#8217;s lip and nose as symmetrical as possible, Mr Chong said.<\/p>\n<p>Cleft palates affect one in every 700 babies in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Drake Saul\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/more-news\/my-son-is-perfect-in-every-way-says-cassi-van-den-dungen\/story-fn7x8me2-1226317989174\" target=\"_blank\">Click here <\/a>to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drake&#8217;s mum Cassi van den Dungen from the 2009 series of Australia&#8217;s Next Top Model said motherhood had been an adventure.<\/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":[7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","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=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}