{"id":35,"date":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforwesleyb\/2020\/10\/22\/happy-transplant-iversary\/"},"modified":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-22T00:00:00","slug":"happy-transplant-iversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforwesleyb\/2020\/10\/22\/happy-transplant-iversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Transplant-iversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/122444910_10164402886270693_751031089298929702_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&amp;ccb=2&amp;_nc_sid=825194&amp;_nc_ohc=hXmqUaiSGQAAX-hZpOs&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&amp;oh=0f29c61db0b91c343a6c39f20b94a1a7&amp;oe=60318EB5\" alt=\"May be an image of child, standing, beach and ocean\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">2 years ago today, Wesley had his liver transplant. I don&rsquo;t know what we would have done without it. The journey has been long and difficult, but it&rsquo;s far easier than the alternative. I want to thank the family of the young man who made the decision to donate his liver to help others. I also want to thank Children&rsquo;s Hospital of Pittsburgh and all the nurses and doctors and care technicians who have been a second family for us. I want to thank my parents for always lending a helping hand and for supporting both Wesley and me throughout this process. I don&rsquo;t know what I&rsquo;d do without them.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Today, my little boy gets to run around on the beach without a care because of this transplant.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Happy Transplant-iversary, Wesley!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 years ago today, Wesley had his liver transplant. I don&rsquo;t know what we would have done without it. The journey has been long and difficult, but it&rsquo;s far easier than the alternative. I want to thank the family of the young man who made the decision to donate his liver to help others. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforwesleyb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforwesleyb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforwesleyb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforwesleyb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforwesleyb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforwesleyb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}