{"id":2494,"date":"2014-02-11T13:58:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T02:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2014-02-11T13:58:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T02:58:18","slug":"mildura-walkathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2014\/02\/11\/mildura-walkathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mildura walk raises funds to send local to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2496\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2496\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2496\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/files\/2014\/02\/walkathon-Feb2014.jpg\" alt=\"Germany's hope for Vince: walkers set off in the dark to raise funds to send local cancer sufferer to Germany for treatment\" width=\"430\" height=\"153\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Germany&#39;s hope for Vince: walkers set off in the dark to raise funds to send local cancer sufferer to Germany for treatment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A walkathon to raise funds to send well-known Sunraysia local, Vince Manno, to Germany for liver cancer treatment looks set to raise over $10,000 with SRH \u2013 Mildura\u2019s Kristy Allen raising over $1,000 towards the total.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-five-year-old Vince was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer 18 months ago. He and his family had exhausted treatment options in Australia when a private oncology clinic in Germany offered further treatment. The clinic is confident of successfully treating his condition.<\/p>\n<p>To help with the financial burden a family friend organised a walkathon on Sunday 2 February when the temperature was forecast to hit 44. Walkers left Red Cliffs at 6 am for Nangiloc, a distance of roughly 32 km, with most finishing by 11.30 and heading straight for the showers.<\/p>\n<p>The entry fee of $10 was bolstered by further donations to support the cause with all funds raised going straight to the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A walkathon to raise funds to send well-known Sunraysia local, Vince Manno, to Germany for liver cancer treatment looks set to raise over $10,000 with SRH \u2013 Mildura\u2019s Kristy Allen raising over $1,000 towards the total. Fifty-five-year-old Vince was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer 18 months ago. He and his family had exhausted treatment options [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2014\/02\/11\/mildura-walkathon\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3334],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}