{"id":5331,"date":"2016-03-26T07:46:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2016-03-26T07:46:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T20:46:58","slug":"good-friday-appeal-raises-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/good-friday-appeal-raises-the-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday Appeal raises the bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23133\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23133 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/intranetnews\/files\/2016\/03\/DMC9049-COPY-1-290x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016 GFA poster child Simone Lionetti.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year\u2019s Good Friday Appeal raised a staggering\u00a0<strong>$17,445,624.38<\/strong>\u00a0for the RCH.<\/p>\n<p>As fundraising activities took place across Australia, it was also a special day for those who were at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once again we are overwhelmed by the\u00a0extraordinary\u00a0generosity of the Victorian community,&#8221; said CEO Professor Christine Kilpatrick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The money the appeal raises makes the difference between being a good children&#8217;s hospital and a great children&#8217;s hospital,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Media, celebrity guests, sports stars, costumed characters other well-known personalities came\u00a0to the hospital to lend their support to the appeal and meet patients, families and staff.<\/p>\n<p>A record number of staff volunteered their time to help out on the day to tour guests through the wards.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you and congratulations to\u00a0everyone involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s Good Friday Appeal raised a staggering $17,445,624.38 for the RCH.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":5333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-good-friday-appeal","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","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\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5334,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions\/5334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}