{"id":5985,"date":"2017-04-15T07:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T21:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2017-04-15T08:33:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T22:33:15","slug":"a-record-breaking-good-friday-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/a-record-breaking-good-friday-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"A record-breaking Good Friday Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5986\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5986\" style=\"width: 452px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5986\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_0134-800x533.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5986\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patients and nurses on Good Friday. Picture: Jake Nowakowski\/Herald Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2017 Good Friday Appeal has raised a record\u00a0<strong>$17,605,662<\/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>\u201cOnce again we are overwhelmed by the\u00a0extraordinary\u00a0generosity of the\u00a0community,\u201d 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>Celebrity guests, sports stars and other well-known characters and personalities visited the hospital to lend their support to the appeal and meet patients, families and staff who were spending Easter in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Current and past patients also formed a Guard of Honour in the inaugural twilight Good Friday AFL match between the Western Bulldogs and North Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Read a full wrap up in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/special-features\/good-friday-appeal\/good-friday-appeal-2017-do-it-for-the-kids\/news-story\/9ca3dfa6a09869d92384793daf428307\">Herald Sun.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>On behalf of our patients and staff, we want to extend a sincere thank you to\u00a0everyone who supported this year&#8217;s appeal!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of our patents and staff, a sincere thank you to everyone who supported the appeal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":5987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,7198,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5985","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\/5985","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=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5989,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions\/5989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}