{"id":103251,"date":"2020-03-04T08:43:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/girl-receives-r2-d2-bionic-arm-and-phone-call-from-luke-skywalker-actor"},"modified":"2020-03-04T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T16:43:24","slug":"girl-receives-r2-d2-bionic-arm-and-phone-call-from-luke-skywalker-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/girl-receives-r2-d2-bionic-arm-and-phone-call-from-luke-skywalker-actor","title":{"rendered":"Girl receives R2-D2 \u2018bionic arm\u2019 and phone call from Luke Skywalker actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/girl-receives-r2-d2-bionic-arm-and-phone-call-from-luke-skywalker-actor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A young Star Wars fan and amputee has received an R2-D2 bionic limb and a phone call from Luke Skywalker himself.<\/p>\n<p>Bella Tadlock, from Tallahassee, Florida, raised almost 14,000 dollars (about \u00a311,000) for her bionic hero arm, created by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2019-02-13\/prosthetics-company-calls-for-bionic-limbs-to-be-available-on-the-nhs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bristol company Open Bionics.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 11-year-old started a fundraiser that first caught the eye of actor Mark Hamill in November \u2014 Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies, retweeted her appeal to his 3.6 million followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young Star Wars fan and amputee has received an R2-D2 bionic limb and a phone call from Luke Skywalker himself. Bella Tadlock, from Tallahassee, Florida, raised almost 14,000 dollars (about \u00a311,000) for her bionic hero arm, created by Bristol company Open Bionics. The 11-year-old started a fundraiser that first caught the eye of actor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1509,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-entertainment","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}