{"id":5499,"date":"2014-08-17T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2021-08-23T00:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T00:35:00","slug":"local-girl-showcases-her-communitys-support-for-medical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/local-girl-showcases-her-communitys-support-for-medical-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher showcases her community"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wonthaggi&#8217;s support for Medical Research<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"\/aus\/about-us\/\">Dr Sharyn Fitzgerald<\/a>, ASPREE Regional Manager, visited her home town Wonthaggi at a study update today.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Wonthaggi, a small hamlet in South Gippsland, has one of the highest participation rates in Australia, much to Sharyn\u2019s immense pride.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It was a delight to share a cuppa with so many local ASPREE participants and guests.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1732\" height=\"1154\" class=\"wp-image-5504\" src=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/SF-RLW-Wonthaggi-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stand under the Jawbones of the 74ft whale at Wonthaggi\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/SF-RLW-Wonthaggi-2014.jpg 1732w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/SF-RLW-Wonthaggi-2014-1280x853.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/SF-RLW-Wonthaggi-2014-980x653.jpg 980w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/SF-RLW-Wonthaggi-2014-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) and (max-width: 1280px) 1280px, (min-width: 1281px) 1732px, 100vw\" \/>\r\n<figcaption><em>Above: Dr Sharyn Fitzgerald (in green) with ASPREE Executive Director, A\/Prof Robyn Woods, under the jaw bone of a 74 ft whale washed up on a Wonthaggi beach in the 1920\u2019s.<\/em><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"532\" class=\"wp-image-5501\" src=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Whale_jawbone_Wonthaggi_early.jpeg\" alt=\"A car is parked under the jawbones of 74ft whale in 1937 - 1938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Whale_jawbone_Wonthaggi_early.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Whale_jawbone_Wonthaggi_early-980x521.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/aspree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Whale_jawbone_Wonthaggi_early-480x255.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" \/>\r\n<figcaption><em>Above: The same 74ft whale jaw bone found on the Wonthaggi beach, photographed in 1937-1938 by G Wardell. Picture archived in the State Library Victoria.<\/em><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>We thank the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wonthaggiclub.com.au\/\">Wonthaggi Club<\/a>\u00a0and the general community for their support for\u00a0the ASPREE trial.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><em>Updated 22.3.2021<\/em><\/pre>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sharyn Fitzgerald, ASPREE Regional Manager, visited her home town Wonthaggi for an ASPREE study update today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1200","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,16],"tags":[41,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspree.org\/aus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}