{"id":85802,"date":"2026-03-02T18:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85802"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T18:15:19","slug":"im-the-first-to-receive-both-pig-and-human-kidneys-the-controversial-surgery-saved-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/03\/02\/im-the-first-to-receive-both-pig-and-human-kidneys-the-controversial-surgery-saved-me\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m the first to receive both pig and human kidneys\u2026 the controversial surgery saved me"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1XlkME.img?w=534&amp;h=358&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Pictured is the genetically-edited pig kidney that was transplanted into Andrews. He lived with it for 271 days\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tim Andrews knew he needed a miracle. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/health-news\/i-m-the-first-to-receive-both-pig-and-human-kidneys-the-controversial-surgery-saved-me\/ar-AA1XldBV?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=e787de7663da471eede15176d6570a06&amp;ei=73\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Tim Andrews knew he needed a miracle. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Tim-Andrews.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85804,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85802\/revisions\/85804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}