{"id":485,"date":"2010-03-27T00:51:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=485"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:06:43","slug":"riley-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/riley-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-487\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/Riley_Ferguson_225px1-225x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"160\" \/>Riley Ferguson is being kept alive by a cow vein and valve.<\/p>\n<p>Cow parts are hardly ever used in children, especially those as tiny as Riley. But\u00a0his heart was so malformed Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital surgeons had to rebuild it.<\/p>\n<p>In an incredibly rare operation, the new parts were put into Riley&#8217;s heart to keep it beating. Almost\u00a0immediately Riley&#8217;s health took a massive turn for the better. He no longer vomits his food at feeding time, he no longer has icey cold feet or turns blue, and he is now a happy child.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Ferguson is being kept alive by a cow vein and valve. Cow parts are hardly ever used in children, especially those as tiny as Riley. But\u00a0his heart was so malformed Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital surgeons had to rebuild it. In an incredibly rare operation, the new parts were put into Riley&#8217;s heart to keep it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/riley-ferguson\/\">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-485","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\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}