{"id":896,"date":"2004-04-02T15:15:15","date_gmt":"2004-04-02T05:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=896"},"modified":"2015-04-29T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T04:19:08","slug":"celebrating-macadamia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/celebrating-macadamia\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Macadamia’s 10th Birthday and 500th Episode"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Royal Children’s Hospital’s lovable in-house television personality, Macadamia, celebrates his 10th birthday and 500th episode tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Going Nuts with Macadamia<\/em> is beamed round the hospital weekly on our in-house TV channel.\u00a0 Hospital patients and special guests join Macadamia in the studio to talk about life in hospital and current events.\u00a0 It’s a one-hour interactive program, the only one of its kind in Australia where the patients are the stars of the show.<\/p>\n

It provides kids in hospital with a welcome break from the monotony of the ward.\u00a0 It provides an effective way of educating children about hospital stays in a non-threatening way by discussing topics such as ‘how to cope with finger pricks’, what to expect when you have an x-ray’, and ‘having a plaster cast put on or taken off’.\u00a0 These can be scary things for a kid in hospital.<\/p>\n

Macamadia also goes on location, recording activities in the hospital and as well as outside.\u00a0 Just because a kid is confined to a hospital bed, doesn’t mean he’ll miss out on what’s happening round town!<\/p>\n

Macadamia is funded by the Staff<\/strong> of Safeway stores, through their contribution to the RCH Good Friday Appeal.<\/p>\n

Media is invited to join us tomorrow to celebrate with Macadamia and the kids who are the stars of the show.\u00a0 Macadamia is a talking celebrity and he and the children will be available for interviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
WHAT\u00a0<\/td>\nMacadamia’s 10th birthday and 500th episode\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WHERE\u00a0<\/td>\nEducational Resource Centre
\nGround Floor, Royal Children’s Hospital<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TIME\u00a0\u00a0<\/td>\n11.00am<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DATE<\/td>\nTuesday 30th March 2004\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Media enquiries call Julie Webber 9345 5522 or 0407 327 418
\nThis event appeared in the Herald Sun and on Channel 7 news<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Royal Children’s Hospital’s lovable in-house television personality, Macadamia, celebrates his 10th birthday and 500th episode tomorrow. Going Nuts with Macadamia is beamed round the hospital weekly on our in-house TV channel.\u00a0 Hospital patients and special guests join Macadamia in the studio to talk about life in hospital and current events.\u00a0 It’s a one-hour interactive program, … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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-896","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\/896","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4997,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}