{"id":127145,"date":"2019-03-04T15:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/myvumc\/index.html?article=22298"},"modified":"2019-03-04T15:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:01:49","slug":"kevin-hartley-was-an-organ-donor-and-his-mother-had-one-wish-to-hear-her-sons-heartbeat-one-more-time-she-got-the-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/2019\/03\/kevin-hartley-was-an-organ-donor-and-his-mother-had-one-wish-to-hear-her-sons-heartbeat-one-more-time-she-got-the-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Hartley was an organ donor, and his mother had one wish: to hear her son&#8217;s heartbeat one more time. She got the chance."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/myvumc\/index.html?article=22298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mc.vanderbilt.edu\/common\/imageresizer\/image.php?image=\/documents\/myvumc\/images\/kevin+hartley+crop.jpg&#038;width=84&#038;height=100&#038;hash=34c726df5c0fcab6544194aac90a0d0a\" align=\"left\" height=\"100\" width=\"84\" alt=\"MyVUMC Photo\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As her 21-year-old son Kevin lay dying in a hospital bed, Wendy Hartley asked her daughter, Amber, to find a stethoscope. She wanted to listen to his heartbeat once more before he passed. Nearly two years after his death, she heard his heartbeat again &#8212; this time in the chest of Rhonda Lucas, a Johnson City, Tennessee, nurse who received his heart.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As her 21-year-old son Kevin lay dying in a hospital bed, Wendy Hartley asked her daughter, Amber, to find a stethoscope. She wanted to listen to his heartbeat once more before he passed. Nearly two years after his death, she heard his heartbeat again &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/2019\/03\/kevin-hartley-was-an-organ-donor-and-his-mother-had-one-wish-to-hear-her-sons-heartbeat-one-more-time-she-got-the-chance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127146,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127145\/revisions\/127146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/richardpeek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}