{"id":418,"date":"2019-07-05T22:53:54","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T05:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/?p=418"},"modified":"2022-04-01T21:06:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T04:06:59","slug":"help-advocate-for-more-bariatric-surgery-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Help Advocate for More Bariatric Surgery Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Province of British Columbia has done an admirable job reducing wait times for almost every form of surgery.\u00a0 An exception is bariatric surgery procedures which the province has limited to 400 procedures annually for many years, without additional funding.<\/p>\n<p>BC Obesity Society is advocating for more bariatric surgery funding to decrease the wait list.\u00a0 Sign the petition to ask the Government for more funding for bariatric surgery.\u00a0 To see the petition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/government-of-british-columbia-please-fund-more-bariatric-surgery-procedures\">Click here&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Province of British Columbia has done an admirable job reducing wait times for almost every form of surgery.\u00a0 An exception is bariatric surgery procedures which the province has limited to 400 procedures annually for many years, without additional funding. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/?p=418\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Help Advocate for More Bariatric Surgery Funding<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bcobesity.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}