{"id":9631,"date":"2011-12-14T10:07:04","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/craiglist_as_kidney_transplant_lifesaver.html"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:07:04","slug":"craiglist-as-kidney-transplant-lifesaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/craiglist-as-kidney-transplant-lifesaver.html","title":{"rendered":"Craiglist as Kidney Transplant Lifesaver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Selena Hodge needed a new kidney she turned to an unlikely place &ndash; Craigslist. The site which many blame for inflicting great pain on the newspaper classified business turned out to be not only be the solution of last resort for Hodge but a lifesaving platform which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wptv.com\/dpp\/news\/region_n_palm_beach_county\/palm_beach_gardens\/woman-receives-kidney-transplant-after-posting-craigslist-ad\">connected her<\/a> with a total stranger willing to give up an organ based on an online ad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/living-kidney-donor-search.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-none\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2011\/12\/living-kidney-donor-search-thumb-500x242-10231.png\" alt=\"living-kidney-donor-search.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out finding kidneys online has happened before based on this <a href=\"http:\/\/insurance-technology.tmcnet.com\/news\/2011\/05\/04\/5485137.htm\">article<\/a> detailing not only specific cases but more importantly a website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suzannesdonorsearch.webnode.com\">Living Kidney Door Search<\/a> which was created in 2010 by Suzanne Kloss. On the site you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/suzannesdonorsearch.webnode.com\/our-stories\/\">stories<\/a> of people who need kidneys as well as one from Venis Gibby who needs one <a href=\"http:\/\/suzannesdonorsearch.webnode.com\/read-searchers-bios\/venis-gibby\/\">urgently<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/business-video.tmcnet.com\/news\/2010\/01\/31\/4597146.htm\">article<\/a> about how John Bellini found a kidney online back in January of 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Selena Hodge needed a new kidney she turned to an unlikely place &ndash; Craigslist. The site which many blame for inflicting great pain on the newspaper classified business turned out to be not only be the solution of last resort for Hodge but a lifesaving platform which connected her with a total stranger willing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}