{"id":34962,"date":"2015-01-20T16:26:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T20:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=34962"},"modified":"2015-01-20T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T20:26:55","slug":"meet-william-elder-jr-a-guest-of-the-first-lady-at-the-state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/20\/meet-william-elder-jr-a-guest-of-the-first-lady-at-the-state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet William Elder Jr., a guest of the First Lady at the State of the Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Bill Elder was only eight years old, most doctors wouldn&#8217;t have expected him to live long. At the time, most cystic fibrosis patients were only expected to live to early adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>But thanks to a unique collaboration between the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, patients, researchers, and a pharmaceutical company, Bill \u2014 now 27 \u2014\u00a0is a graduate of Stanford University, a third-year medical student in Ohio, and is expecting to live a long, very full life.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/meet-william-elder-jr-guest-first-lady-state-union\" target=\"_blank\">White House Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt When Bill Elder was only eight years old, most doctors wouldn&#8217;t have expected him to live long. At the time, most cystic fibrosis patients were only expected to live to early adulthood. But thanks to a unique collaboration between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/20\/meet-william-elder-jr-a-guest-of-the-first-lady-at-the-state-of-the-union\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":34963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,715,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-news","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34964,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34962\/revisions\/34964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}