{"id":16162,"date":"2012-04-06T19:13:12","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T23:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16162"},"modified":"2012-04-06T19:13:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T23:13:12","slug":"selling-a-kidney-to-buy-an-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/selling-a-kidney-to-buy-an-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Selling a kidney to buy an iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not a joke: a teenager in China actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-17640209\" target=\"_blank\">did it<\/a>. The siren call of technological toys is hard to resist; it\u2019s a shame that it didn\u2019t occur to the teenager that his kidney has more advanced and useful technology than even an iPad.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Five people have been arrested in southern China after a teenager sold his kidney so he could buy an iPhone and iPad, state media have reported.<\/p>\n<p>Those detained include the surgeon who removed the kidney from the boy in April last year.<\/p>\n<p>State-run Xinhua news agency says the group received around $35,000 (\u00a322,000) for the transplant.<\/p>\n<p>The student is said to be suffering renal failure, according to prosecutors in Hunan province quoted by Xinhua.<\/p>\n<p>Only identified by his surname Wang, he is said to have received about $3,000 for his kidney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a joke: a teenager in China actually did it. The siren call of technological toys is hard to resist; it\u2019s a shame that it didn\u2019t occur to the teenager that his kidney has more advanced and useful technology than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/selling-a-kidney-to-buy-an-ipad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[303],"tags":[902,2263],"class_list":["post-16162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ipad","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}