{"id":53,"date":"2016-07-24T20:08:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T20:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fertilehopes.org\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2016-09-04T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:33:10","slug":"about-fertile-hopes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/index.php\/about-fertile-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"About Fertile Hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fertilehopes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pexels-photo-54547-medium-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"pexels-photo-54547-medium\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pexels-photo-54547-medium-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pexels-photo-54547-medium.jpg 525w, http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/pexels-photo-54547-medium-272x182.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Message from the founder<\/p>\n<p>After a four year battle with kidney cancer, my husband Craig passed away.<\/p>\n<p>He was the love of my life and we dreamed of having a family together.\u00a0 Unfortunately for us, this particular dream never became reality.\u00a0 For a year and a half I participated in fertility treatments, and at the end of my journey, although it did not result in a baby, the experience inspired me to advocate for and support others impacted by cancer in their desire to have a family.<\/p>\n<p>Fertility treatments are costly and are not covered by private insurance.\u00a0 This is an opportunity to honor the love and strength of my late husband while creating hope for others.<\/p>\n<p>Fertile Hopes, Inc is a nonprofit run strictly by volunteers.\u00a0 Donations will provide individuals and families impacted by cancer financial assistance for otherwise cost prohibitive fertility treatments. <\/p>\n<p>Contending with a diagnosis of cancer in any form can be daunting at any stage of life.<\/p>\n<p>I have a friend who survived brain cancer as a teenager but due to the treatment she is currently infertile.\u00a0 When she was a teenager, egg freezing for future use was not an option available to her.\u00a0 It is the mission of Fertile Hopes, Inc to make this option as well as others available to individuals impacted by cancer to support their hope for a future. <\/p>\n<p>Please support us in offering hope for a future to the ever growing number of individuals and families impacted by cancer.<\/p>\n<p>When my husband was diagnosed and deemed terminal, he and I swore to each other that cancer would not dictate our lives or determine our future.\u00a0 Fertile Hopes, Inc is a chance to make good on that promise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We are a 501c(3)\u00a0not for profit organization.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Message from the founder After a four year battle with kidney cancer, my husband Craig passed away. He was the love of my life and we dreamed of having a family together.\u00a0 Unfortunately for us, this particular dream never became<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-53","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fertilehopes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}