{"id":5409,"date":"2010-05-01T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2010-05-01T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T08:00:51","slug":"electron-boy-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5409","title":{"rendered":"Electron Boy to the Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2011740342_electronboy30m.html\">Local boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spiderman called.<\/p>\n<p>Spiderman happens to be one of the few people who knows that Erik, too, has a secret identity \u2014 he&#8217;s Electron Boy, a superhero who fights the powers of evil with light.<\/p>\n<p>And Spiderman needed Erik&#8217;s help.<\/p>\n<p>Erik, who is living with liver cancer, has always wanted to be a superhero. On Thursday, the regional chapter of the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted him that wish with an elaborate event that involved hundreds of volunteers in Bellevue and Seattle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good thing the evildoers did not know his weakness is a magnetic field, which will limit his orientation options. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spiderman called. Spiderman happens to be one of the few &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5409\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}