{"id":196,"date":"2011-03-27T06:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T19:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=196"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:00:20","slug":"betty-kemp-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/betty-kemp-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Kemp-Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-197\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/646211-betty_225_px1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"127\" \/>Betty and Delilah Kemp-Bishop were born three days before Christmas.\u00a0 Ready to take their parcels of joy\u00a0home, the girls&#8217; parents were shocked to realise one of them would require a little extra unwrapping.<\/p>\n<p>Betty was born with an ill-formed oesophagus, causing it to fuse with her trachea.\u00a0 She was raced to the RCH for emergency surgery to undo the join.\u00a0 Though the surgery was a success, Betty&#8217;s weak oesophagus lacked the strength to swallow saliva or food and so she&#8217;s spent the past three months in the RCH Neonatal Unit under close watch by\u00a0doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at Sunday Herald Sun online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/ipad\/stubborn-betty-proves-her-mettle\/story-fn6bfm6w-1226028646356\">Stubborn Betty proves her mettle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the Sunday\u00a0Herald Sun<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betty and Delilah Kemp-Bishop were born three days before Christmas.\u00a0 Ready to take their parcels of joy\u00a0home, the girls&#8217; parents were shocked to realise one of them would require a little extra unwrapping. Betty was born with an ill-formed oesophagus, causing it to fuse with her trachea.\u00a0 She was raced to the RCH for emergency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/betty-kemp-bishop\/\">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-196","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\/196","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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}