{"id":5410,"date":"2011-11-02T20:23:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2011-11-02T20:23:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:23:34","slug":"these-people-are-not-crackpots-or-loons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2011\/11\/02\/these-people-are-not-crackpots-or-loons\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;These people are not crackpots or loons.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/appeal-launched-for-kidney-donors\">Since 2007, 88 people have donated a kidney to a stranger. Patients typically live 10 to 15 years longer with a kidney transplant than if they were kept on dialysis.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The long-term risk of dying from donating a kidney is no greater than for anyone of a similar age who has not had a kidney removed.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Paul Gibbs, consultant transplant surgeon for Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, has performed nearly 200 kidney transplants. Speaking about altruistic donors, he said: &#8220;These people are not crackpots or loons; they are very normal yet extraordinary individuals. They come from all walks of life: men, women, young and old.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2007, 88 people have donated a kidney to a stranger. Patients typically live 10 to 15 years longer with a kidney transplant than if they were kept on dialysis. The long-term risk of dying from donating a kidney is no greater than for anyone of a similar age who has not had a kidney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[404,679],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-donor","tag-kidneys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}