{"id":21,"date":"2009-02-10T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/india-transplant.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T04:07:06","slug":"first-us-face-transplant-patient-leaves-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/first-us-face-transplant-patient-leaves-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"First US face transplant patient leaves hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/services\/content\/health\/stories\/2009\/02\/09\/face_transplant.html<\/p>\n<p>By MARILYNN MARCHIONE<\/p>\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>Monday, February 09, 2009<\/p>\n<p>She can eat pizza. And hamburgers. She can smell perfume, drink coffee from a cup, and purse her lips as if to blow a kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Except that one lip is hers, and the other is from a dead woman. She is the nation\u2019s first face transplant patient, and on Thursday night, she went home from a Cleveland hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/services\/content\/health\/stories\/2009\/02\/09\/face_transplant.html By MARILYNN MARCHIONE Associated Press Monday, February 09, 2009 She can eat pizza. And hamburgers. She can smell perfume, drink coffee from a cup, and purse her lips as if to blow a kiss. Except that one lip is hers, and the other is from a dead woman. She is the nation\u2019s first face &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/first-us-face-transplant-patient-leaves-hospital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First US face transplant patient leaves hospital<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penandscale.com\/india-transplant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}