{"id":7691,"date":"2020-01-07T12:33:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2020-01-08T09:13:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T22:13:12","slug":"rch-joins-bushfire-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/rch-joins-bushfire-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting our supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital has been fortunate to enjoy outstanding community support for 150 years. The generosity of the Victorian people, along with countless community organisations, have enabled us to become one of the world\u2019s greatest children\u2019s hospitals.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But now our community needs your support.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Over the past weeks we have shared the pain of Victorians everywhere as our state \u2013 and the communities that have so generously supported us \u2013 have endured unfathomable tragedy. We\u2019ve also watched on as the Country Fire Authority \u2013 who have supported the RCH and the Good Friday Appeal for almost 90 years \u2013 have worked shoulder to shoulder with emergency services and residents trying to save properties and wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>As we enter our 150th year, and approach another Good Friday Appeal, we ask that you support those who have supported us.<\/p>\n<p>We will always need and value your support \u2013 but right now, there are others who need it as well.<\/p>\n<p>You can read our message to supporters here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2twHTdE\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2twHTdE<\/a> and donate to the CFA directly via our Facebook page or via the CFA website: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2rZtzK6\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2rZtzK6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may also wish to support the Victorian Government\u2019s Bushfire Appeal here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fvic.gov.au%2Fbushfireappeal%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2hH4p5CczelIL9ofAkkSGO4xHGMS83DLXf0JvrmhEfHMcnUYwSPfUCc-A&amp;h=AT0s64PmAUuhOHLwTdfY41PyNDp_nYk6ie3ZJPQxMwNIoEFP6bbdlk30N-Lw1dAx3T6YwGWcZKJ3DymTWgcbDbwCix3ys5Dm_ix-4f56csPKZmx759WCqC4ghR-UO9XNK-KQEHRC_lcO39wz9vIMrCKOBStThk25VYo2J1SglRZnpJFVyuQpXjCCrG1687wm5VwVHFhswR6iw8wxeDq1E-Ihv_RKMS5SH_rH0gnV5X6Cw6VSmaCP1AwL4u2CSKc-_4eHNts2QU1AA47fE9f5sMrRMVRE-UfID1-2EXj0MrO6YAOM7kwRQAN81ZIJ0fr5uwdrAudtwnDlPdxcmOqIRdz8-9Wn_d08W0fDyyKaSsOtxepHkibs4Rq8QPMbPFmfKlfIz8b6ejFMP5YxU2SD-RldefzjfOLJFyaNhWNKKtRiur-1k9h10rbBaPQ2wx39LtP4cuxDMFqNli9fFnEjntyb-4BR5kZ5_T7n-DWcsSSGgIinMx5fhXzwlY_2XnC1Yi15JzD7_sKyD8c_YRzyNdpeHWY6E1yxXs2nnUal5nTfwvrEhuJ8D1Zfb0TsRk6jr4JlIsPcKpwIG0qXCKEgv2v9WHKDbees0Tx6KhUs0E86whrDoj1jNSZ3cweRSt9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;-U&quot;}\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\">vic.gov.au\/bushfireappeal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0<a class=\"profileLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cfavic\/?__tn__=K-R&amp;eid=ARDBalTaMgojIC1e5HYW8CUMTjCd4yhSfh0KG3wgUI2_EH7Dzs9MBPgF2pRD7OKMB8r2ss5Lq9_4oJaR&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARD-hhJc3F8dzR_fZQ9pJGotwNhyL6vY5EOkPMA_p65PulIzq3QP9xXGTDD6kI85k1aPOoKfuIWzj8GzB59OSkABK_Nu_0xnzt1ra06GticfbNaEsobFyFYvtcY0I47Am8B3K3-ZBU58OSK-QfPUmt4ESpaf5gCrBPofKdnytcjQwZ6JdcKb1ZNoIczgj5uVSSCt_41f-aITV0_l_qDNBFA7t_pkJYcU0Dj8CLQ2d7VJ3k11gixJC0j5ytkZaNM_74pQ93Q1kXNMtDXm1HX6TLvbYS_cv6_BQEyhdgtS8AgRl4BcVizz2U3Ce1A9NJJ7rQgR9VYJXe6uHjxttDPFfMcoDQ\" data-hovercard=\"\/ajax\/hovercard\/page.php?id=7390614415&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARDBalTaMgojIC1e5HYW8CUMTjCd4yhSfh0KG3wgUI2_EH7Dzs9MBPgF2pRD7OKMB8r2ss5Lq9_4oJaR%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D\" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show=\"1\">CFA (Country Fire Authority)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital has been fortunate to enjoy outstanding community support for 150 years. The generosity of the Victorian people, along with countless community organisations, have enabled us to become one of the world\u2019s greatest children\u2019s hospitals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":7693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","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\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7699,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions\/7699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}