{"id":57,"date":"2012-03-07T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T22:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=57"},"modified":"2012-03-07T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T22:00:56","slug":"student-rides-5000-km-for-rural-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/03\/07\/student-rides-5000-km-for-rural-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Student rides 5,000 km for rural health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_59\" style=\"width: 355px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/files\/2012\/03\/Sam-007.jpg\" alt=\"GMS student, Sam Alexander, with the three horses he will ride up the east coast of Australia.\" width=\"345\" height=\"236\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-59\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GMS student, Sam Alexander, with the three horses he will ride up the east coast of Australia.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gippsland Medical School Year B student Sam Alexander has put his studies on hold this year while he takes off on what can only be described as a great adventure \u2013 riding his three horses 5,330 kilometres along the east coast of Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It is not just a whim for Sam, however, as he is undertaking the journey to raise awareness for a cause close to his heart, the importance of medical care in rural Australia, while also raising money for the Royal Flying Doctors\u2019 Service.<\/p>\n<p>Sam left late in February and just before heading off dropped into the Gippsland Medical School with his three steeds for a meet and greet with GMS staff and Year A students, enabling everyone to wish him well on his endeavour.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to assist or want more details about Sam&#8217;s quest, see\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.headingnorth2012.com\">www.headingnorth2012.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gippsland Medical School Year B student Sam Alexander has put his studies on hold this year while he takes off on what can only be described as a great adventure \u2013 riding his three horses 5,330 kilometres along the east coast of Australia. It is not just a whim for Sam, however, as he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2012\/03\/07\/student-rides-5000-km-for-rural-health\/\"> Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"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=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}