{"id":5976,"date":"2017-04-03T13:36:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T03:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5976"},"modified":"2017-04-03T16:39:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T06:39:41","slug":"aprof-andrew-kornbergs-circumnavigation-of-australia-is-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/aprof-andrew-kornbergs-circumnavigation-of-australia-is-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"A\/Prof Andrew Kornberg\u2019s circumnavigation of Australia is complete!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0066.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5977 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0066-373x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0066-373x280.jpg 373w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0066-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0066-747x560.jpg 747w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0066.jpg 1632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a>Congratulations to our very own A\/Prof Andrew Kornberg, whose solo circumnavigation of Australia is complete!<\/p>\n<p>Andrew\u00a0arrived back in Melbourne on Saturday April 1 after one month in the air. He was greeted by staff from the RCH and RCH Foundation, his patient Tom and his family, along with Anne Randall from the Good Friday Appeal and staff from Avalon Airport, who have supported Andrew\u2019s incredible journey.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew began his fundraising adventure from the Australian International Air Show on Sunday March 5 and has spent the last month flying around Australia to raise money for the 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/goodfridayappeal.com.au\/\">Good Friday Appeal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Along the way he caught up with past and present patients, met many community groups and organisations and contended with wet and wild weather across the north of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about his epic journey on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/flyforthekids.org.au\/category\/pilots-blog\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrew\u2019s mission raises funds for a new Complex Movement Disorders Program at the hospital. If you would like to donate, there\u2019s still time. Please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/flyforthekids.org.au\/\">Fly for the Kids<\/a> website for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An epic fundraising adventure has come to an end! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":5979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","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\/5976","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\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}