{"id":28194,"date":"2016-07-22T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/double-hand-transplant-uks-first-operation-tremendous-success"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:31:43","slug":"double-hand-transplant-uks-first-operation-tremendous-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/double-hand-transplant-uks-first-operation-tremendous-success","title":{"rendered":"Double hand transplant: UK\u2019s first operation \u2018tremendous\u2019 success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/double-hand-transplant-uks-first-operation-tremendous-success.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The UK\u2019s first double hand transplant operation has taken place at Leeds General Infirmary and the patient says his new hands look \u201ctremendous\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Chris King, from Doncaster, lost both his hands, apart from the thumbs, in an accident involving a metal pressing machine at work three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The 57-year-old received two new hands from a donor and says he already has some movement in them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-36858169\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-36858169<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK\u2019s first double hand transplant operation has taken place at Leeds General Infirmary and the patient says his new hands look \u201ctremendous\u201d. Chris King, from Doncaster, lost both his hands, apart from the thumbs, in an accident involving a metal pressing machine at work three years ago. The 57-year-old received two new hands from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28194","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28194"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66818,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28194\/revisions\/66818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}