{"id":150745,"date":"2022-11-21T21:25:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T03:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/i-got-worlds-first-double-arm-transplant-and-can-finally-hug-my-grandkids"},"modified":"2022-11-21T21:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T03:25:02","slug":"i-got-worlds-first-double-arm-transplant-and-can-finally-hug-my-grandkids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/i-got-worlds-first-double-arm-transplant-and-can-finally-hug-my-grandkids","title":{"rendered":"I got world\u2019s first double arm transplant \u2014 and can finally hug my grandkids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-got-worlds-first-double-arm-transplant-and-can-finally-hug-my-grandkids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He has surpassed every medical expectation throughout his recovery. Gretarsson can now walk his dog, brush his teeth and give high-fives \u2014 as demonstrated when he met Iceland\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rbx_srPdWQs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have feelings in every finger, in the hand,\u201d Gretarsson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rbx_srPdWQs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said recently alongside his wife, Silvia, Friday on \u201cGood Morning Britain.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, recovery has been a complicated one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He has surpassed every medical expectation throughout his recovery. Gretarsson can now walk his dog, brush his teeth and give high-fives \u2014 as demonstrated when he met Iceland\u2019s president. \u201cI have feelings in every finger, in the hand,\u201d Gretarsson said recently alongside his wife, Silvia, Friday on \u201cGood Morning Britain.\u201d Of course, recovery has been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150745","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}