{"id":711288,"date":"2010-04-07T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011550240_childrenshospitalgivengoaheadtoexpand.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-07T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:03:08","slug":"childrens-hospital-given-go-ahead-to-expand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/711288","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s hospital given go-ahead to expand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why did approval take so long?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why has it taken Seattle City Council two years to finally OK Children\u2019s hospital expansion plans? [\u201cChildren\u2019s expansion gains OK of council,\u201d NWTuesday, April 6].<\/p>\n<p>Citizens may not realize how many ways a specialty medical center such as Children\u2019s benefits the whole community and beyond. Not only does Children\u2019s provide first-class medical care to our \u201csmall people,\u201d it is also a training arena for many professionals \u2014medical students and residents, nursing students and advanced nursing specialties, occupational and physical therapists, speech and language specialists and others.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Children\u2019s offers ongoing learning opportunities and professional conferences to many groups, professionals and parents. Many times, I have enjoyed and learned new skills while attending conferences on site. Lets get the new building plans moving.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Mary Kathryn Myers, Kent<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why did approval take so long? Why has it taken Seattle City Council two years to finally OK Children\u2019s hospital expansion plans? [\u201cChildren\u2019s expansion gains OK of council,\u201d NWTuesday, April 6]. Citizens may not realize how many ways a specialty medical center such as Children\u2019s benefits the whole community and beyond. Not only does Children\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Z2o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}