{"id":2169,"date":"2012-08-17T06:11:37","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T20:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:46:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:46:42","slug":"matt-targett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/matt-targett\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic swimmer visits RCH patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2170\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/08\/17\/matt-targett\/dsc02650222\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2170\" title=\"DSC02650222\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/DSC02650222-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"Olympic swimmer Matt Targett visits RCH patient Sam Snee.\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olympic swimmer Matt Targett visits RCH patient Sam Snee.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Patients and families at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) had a touch of Olympic glory today when dual Olympic swimmer Matt Targett visited the wards.<\/p>\n<p>Matt won\u00a0silver in the 4x100m medley and a bronze in the 4x100m freestyle relay at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. And at the London 2012 Olympics Matt competed in the 4&#215;100 freestyle relay and won bronze in the 4&#215;100 medley.<\/p>\n<p>Patients and families spoke to Matt about his\u00a0experience\u00a0at the London Olympics and had photos taken holding his bronze medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic swimmer Matt Targett visited patients and families at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital this week.<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2169","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\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}