{"id":99298,"date":"2019-12-03T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/family-thankful-for-new-technique-that-eases-giving-gift-of-life"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T20:24:06","slug":"family-thankful-for-new-technique-that-eases-giving-gift-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/family-thankful-for-new-technique-that-eases-giving-gift-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Family thankful for new technique that eases giving gift of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/family-thankful-for-new-technique-that-eases-giving-gift-of-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 10,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving liver transplant.<\/p>\n<p>The liver is one of the only organs that can be donated from a living person, and now, a new technique is making it easier than ever before to give the gift of life.<\/p>\n<p>Nikko Velazquez, 29, watched helplessly as his girlfriend\u2019s father, Abraham Aviv, 66, experienced end stage liver disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 10,000 people are waiting for a lifesaving liver transplant. The liver is one of the only organs that can be donated from a living person, and now, a new technique is making it easier than ever before to give the gift of life. Nikko Velazquez, 29, watched helplessly as his girlfriend\u2019s father, Abraham [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99298","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}