{"id":80143,"date":"2019-07-08T03:27:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T01:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=80143"},"modified":"2019-07-08T11:04:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T09:04:58","slug":"stevie-wonder-to-have-kidney-transplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/07\/08\/stevie-wonder-to-have-kidney-transplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder to have kidney transplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80144\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/stevie-wonder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-80144\" src=\"\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/stevie-wonder-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/stevie-wonder-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/stevie-wonder.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WONDER\u2014 I am all good<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stevie Wonder will have a kidney transplant later this year, he has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The singer told the crowd about his medical condition as he finished his set at British Summer Time Hyde Park.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said he had found a donor and would perform three more shows before the operation in September, saying: <em>\u201cI\u2019m all good, I\u2019m all good.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fans greeted the news with a loud, supportive cheer, applauding the 69-year-old singer as he left the stage.<\/p>\n<p>He had just finished playing the song \u2018Superstition\u2019 when he told the crowd he wanted to prevent \u201crumours\u201d spreading about his health.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI\u2019m all good, I\u2019m all good, all good, I have a donor and it\u2019s all good,\u201d <\/em>he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI want you to know, I came here to give you my love and thank you for your love. I love you and God bless you.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The NHS says the most common reason for needing a transplant is kidney failure or end-stage chronic kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to donate a kidney while still alive as people only need one kidney to survive. <strong>\u2013 BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevie Wonder will have a kidney transplant later this year, he has announced. The singer told the crowd about his medical condition as he finished his set at British Summer Time Hyde Park. He said he had found a donor and would perform three more shows before the operation in September, saying: \u201cI\u2019m all good, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80205,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80143\/revisions\/80205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}