{"id":4181,"date":"2014-04-13T02:14:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T16:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:52:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:52:24","slug":"4181","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/4181\/","title":{"rendered":"Darcy&#8217;s mum urges all to support Good Friday Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong>Alice Claridge<strong><strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Nikki Davis-Jones<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4183\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/098437-4096ff00-c132-11e3-ae1a-c0e605d906a7.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4183\" alt=\"Darcy recovering from cardiac surgery at the RCH.\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/098437-4096ff00-c132-11e3-ae1a-c0e605d906a7-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Darcy recovering from cardiac surgery at the RCH.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Watching Darcy Templar race around the playground with his friends gives no indication of the health problems that required two life-saving heart operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Darcy\u2019s life was saved at just two weeks of age by surgery to his aortic valve at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout the expertise of the doctors and staff at the RCH, Darcy would not have lived for longer than a month,\u201d his mother, Jodi Templar, said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Darcy returned to hospital for a second operation to repair his heart.<\/p>\n<p>Now Mrs Templar is urging Tasmanians to support the children\u2019s hospital by donating to its Good Friday appeal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a title=\"Hobart Mercury\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/news\/tasmania\/tassie-mum-whose-tiny-son-was-saved-by-royal-melbourne-childrens-hospital-urges-all-to-support-good-friday-appeal\/story-fnj4f7k1-1226882098184\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full story in the Sunday Tasmanian.<\/p>\n<p>To donate to The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital Good Friday Appeal, go to\u00a0<a title=\"Good Friday Appeal\" href=\"http:\/\/goodfridayappeal.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">goodfridayappeal.com.au<\/a>\u00a0or phone 9292 1166<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Darcy Templar race around the playground with his friends gives no indication of the health problems that required two life-saving heart operations at the RCH.<\/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-4181","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\/4181","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=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4186,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}