{"id":4075,"date":"2014-03-31T04:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T17:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:53:21","slug":"life-on-the-upswing-after-jeds-big-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/life-on-the-upswing-after-jeds-big-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Life on the upswing after Jed\u2019s big battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong>Brigid O&#8217;Connell<strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0Jay Town<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4078\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Jed.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4078\" alt=\"Jed\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/03\/Jed-210x160.jpeg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jed with dad Paul. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jed Harris has every right to look triumphant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>His chest has twice been opened by surgeons to repair a hole in his heart and reconnect its blood supply to the lungs.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month after his second open heart surgery, Jed was diagnosed with cancer &#8211; all before his first birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Now aged 15 months, the Ballarat toddler is in remission and is celebrating the removal of the nasal gastric tube &#8211; which he had since he was five weeks old.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun Jed Harris\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/victoria\/life-on-the-upswing-after-jeds-big-battle\/story-fnii5sms-1226869180684\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full Herald Sun story.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to the Good Friday Appeal head to\u00a0<a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodfridayappeal.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone (03) 9292 1166.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brave little Jed underwent two major heart surgeries and then went on to battle cancer, all before his first birthday.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-friday-appeal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075","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=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4079,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}