{"id":4847,"date":"2015-04-04T07:22:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2015-04-29T08:37:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T22:37:44","slug":"generous-victorians-smash-gfa-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/generous-victorians-smash-gfa-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Generous Victorians smash GFA record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/04\/Richmond-InternetEDIT.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4849 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/04\/Richmond-InternetEDIT.jpg\" alt=\"Richmond InternetEDIT\" width=\"357\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/04\/Richmond-InternetEDIT.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2015\/04\/Richmond-InternetEDIT-390x280.jpg 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a>The 2015 Good Friday Appeal raised an incredible\u00a0$17,109,063.22 for The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH), surpassing last year&#8217;s record of more than $16.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe generosity of the Victorian community, and their support for our\u00a0hospital, is overwhelming,&#8221; said CEO Professor Christine Kilpatrick.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money the appeal raises makes the difference between being a good children\u2019s hospital and a great children\u2019s hospital,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>While fundraising activities took place across Australia, the RCH hosted a special day for the children too sick to go home for Easter.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrity guests, sporting stars and other well-known personalities came to the hospital to lend their support to the appeal and meet patients, families and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Special guests, included the Easter Bunny, Jessica Mauboy, Justice Crew, Spongebob Squarepants, Princess Elsa, Border Protection puppies and numerous\u00a0AFL teams.<\/p>\n<p>To see all the action from the day, visit the RCH on Facebook, @RCHMelbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$17,109,063.22 raised to support the RCH to deliver great care. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":4849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4852,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions\/4852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}