{"id":2776,"date":"2010-10-04T19:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T19:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2010-10-04T19:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T19:00:31","slug":"incredible_mach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2776","title":{"rendered":"Incredible Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old Italian boy with Duchenne&#8217;s muscular dystrophy is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/healthnews\/8039300\/Boy-15-gets-first-permanent-artifical-heart.html\">first person to receive a permanent artificial heart<\/a>. The device, which is only 4 centimeters long, is expected to extend the boy&#8217;s life by another 20-25 years. This is potentially big news for people who need organ transplants but have underlying health conditions that keep them off the the organ transplant lists. Let&#8217;s hope that this kid&#8217;s heart performs as expected and that artificial organs eventually become viable and affordable options for not just people with disabilities, but everyone. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?w=695\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 15-year-old Italian boy with Duchenne&#8217;s muscular dystrophy is the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. The device, which is only 4 centimeters long, is expected to extend the boy&#8217;s life by another 20-25 years. This is potentially big news for people who need organ transplants but have underlying health conditions that keep <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2776' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-IM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}