{"id":518,"date":"2010-03-13T01:05:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=518"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:07:38","slug":"dean-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/dean-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-519\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2011\/10\/Dean_Adams225px1-162x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"160\" \/>He&#8217;s confident, happy, and rides a bike just like any other 13-year-old kid. But Dean Adams has done it tough.<\/p>\n<p>He was born with a rare disease that&#8217;s left him without stomach muscles. He was on a ventilator for the first two-and-a-half years of his life, and was 10 before he tasted food. Guess what Dean loves to eat? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/dean-his-mum-and-his-cheezels-beat-one-in-a-million-odds\/story-e6frf7jo-1225840208556\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s confident, happy, and rides a bike just like any other 13-year-old kid. But Dean Adams has done it tough. He was born with a rare disease that&#8217;s left him without stomach muscles. He was on a ventilator for the first two-and-a-half years of his life, and was 10 before he tasted food. Guess what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/dean-adams\/\">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-518","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\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}