{"id":90876,"date":"2026-06-18T08:59:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90876"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:59:57","slug":"essex-boys-life-saved-in-uk-first-procedure-after-being-told-he-would-be-unlikely-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/essex-boys-life-saved-in-uk-first-procedure-after-being-told-he-would-be-unlikely-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Essex boy&#8217;s life saved in UK-first procedure after being told he would be &#8216;unlikely to survive&#8217;"},"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\"> < 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\/AA25WfaE.img?w=768&h=511&m=6&x=378&y=92&s=82&d=82\" alt=\"Elliot playing on a swing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Essex boy\u2019s life has been saved after he became the first child in the UK to have an angioplasty for heart failure \u2013 a procedure usually reserved for adults with heart conditions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/essex-boy-s-life-saved-in-uk-first-procedure-after-being-told-he-would-be-unlikely-to-survive\/ar-AA25WiQ6?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a33a7c339cd466888af7cf694a499c5&ei=29\">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>An Essex boy\u2019s life has been saved after he became the first child in the UK to have an angioplasty for heart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Elliot-Atkins.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90876","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=90876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90878,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90876\/revisions\/90878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}