{"id":427,"date":"2009-10-17T00:14:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T13:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=427"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:12:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:12:19","slug":"koda-visits-the-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/koda-visits-the-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Koda visits the kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-429\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-429\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2009\/10\/Koda_and_girl_for_web1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Koda greets eight-year-old Bella Green in the corridor. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Patients at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital enjoyed a special visit from a tiny friend with a big heart yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Koda the miniature pony clip-clopped his way through the corridors to say hello to the children of the orthopaedic ward.<\/p>\n<p>One-year-old Koda has dwarfism and weighs only 35kg.\u00a0 Like the patients he visited, Koda&#8217;s had a number of operations.\u00a0 His condition means there&#8217;ll be more surgery to come, including removal of adult teeth that will grow too big for his small mouth.<\/p>\n<p>For now though, Koda and his owner, vet Andy Lynch from Yarrambat Vet Hospital, are happy to spread some joy to sick children.<\/p>\n<p><em>To view a video of Koda&#8217;s visit, head to the Herald Sun online:<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/player.video.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/#1257297489\"><em>http:\/\/player.video.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/#1257297489<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hecqgaLKVAI.html\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/a.blip.tv\/api.swf#hecqgaLKVAI\" style=\"display:none\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients at The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital enjoyed a special visit from a tiny friend with a big heart yesterday. Koda the miniature pony clip-clopped his way through the corridors to say hello to the children of the orthopaedic ward. One-year-old Koda has dwarfism and weighs only 35kg.\u00a0 Like the patients he visited, Koda&#8217;s had a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/koda-visits-the-kids\/\">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-427","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\/427","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=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}