{"id":4187,"date":"2014-04-15T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:51:05","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T01:51:05","slug":"a-special-bond-between-father-and-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/a-special-bond-between-father-and-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"A special bond between father and daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Words:\u00a0<\/strong>Brigid O&#8217;Connell<strong><strong><br \/>\nPhotography:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Jay Town<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4190\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/307629-7d017de2-c297-11e3-b68a-f6104b7c1796.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4190\" alt=\"Ervanur Cekinmez, with her dad, Hakan, in the RCH having treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2014\/04\/307629-7d017de2-c297-11e3-b68a-f6104b7c1796-210x160.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ervanur Cekinmez, with her dad, Hakan, in the RCH having treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Snuggling into daddy\u2019s shoulder is as close as Ervanur Cekinmez can get to escaping the realities of the oncology ward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This father-daughter bond has grown stronger in the eight months since his 19-month-old was diagnosed with Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.<\/p>\n<p>It is the most common type of cancer treated at The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital but, for this family of five, Ervanur\u2019s diagnosis has been an unexpected heartbreak.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herald Sun\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/a-special-bond-between-father-and-daughter\/story-fnls7nyz-1226884305295\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the full story in the Herald Sun.<\/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>This father-daughter bond has grown stronger in the eight months since his 19-month-old was diagnosed with Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.<\/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-4187","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\/4187","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=4187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4187\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}