{"id":119146,"date":"2021-02-03T19:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/new-chance-at-life-man-gets-face-hands-in-rare-surgery"},"modified":"2021-02-03T19:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T03:23:27","slug":"new-chance-at-life-man-gets-face-hands-in-rare-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/new-chance-at-life-man-gets-face-hands-in-rare-surgery","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New chance at life\u2019: Man gets face, hands in rare surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-chance-at-life-man-gets-face-hands-in-rare-surgery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last August, two years after being badly burned in a car crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew it would be baby steps all the way,\u201d DiMeo told The Associated Press. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to have a lot of motivation, a lot of patience. And you\u2019ve got to stay strong through everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Almost six months after a rare face and hands transplant, Joe DiMeo is relearning how to smile, blink, pinch and squeeze. The 22-year-old New Jersey resident had the operation last August, two years after being badly burned in a car crash. \u201cI knew it would be baby steps all the way,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119146","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}