{"id":1277,"date":"2006-07-15T09:41:50","date_gmt":"2006-07-15T14:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/07\/15\/peter-jackson-gives-500000-for-stem-cell-research\/"},"modified":"2006-07-15T09:41:50","modified_gmt":"2006-07-15T14:41:50","slug":"peter-jackson-gives-500000-for-stem-cell-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2006\/07\/15\/1277-peter-jackson-gives-500000-for-stem-cell-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jackson gives $500,000 for stem cell research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontPJ.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> Wellington film-making couple Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have donated $500,000 (US$311,000) to the University of California&#8217;s research programme on human embryonic stem cells. &#8220;We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson&#8217;s disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific,&#8221; Jackson said today. &#8220;Stem cell therapy has the potential to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses, which up until now have been labelled &#8216;incurable&#8217;.&#8221; [<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/section\/6\/story.cfm?c_id=6&#038;objectid=10391442\" TARGET=NEW>More<\/a>]<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington film-making couple Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have donated $500,000 (US$311,000) to the University of California&#8217;s research&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-kB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}