{"id":346,"date":"2008-05-12T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/05\/12\/kindness-of-strangers-benefits-tallest-man\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T15:01:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T05:01:21","slug":"kindness-of-strangers-benefits-tallest-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/05\/12\/kindness-of-strangers-benefits-tallest-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindness of strangers benefits tallest man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" width=\"296\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia1.msn.com\/j\/msnbc\/Components\/Video\/080324\/a_zeitgeist_tallest_080324.300w.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"World's tallest man\" height=\"222\" onmouseout=\"undefined\" title=\"undefined\" onmouseover=\"undefined\" \/>Just because you are in the Guiness World Record book doesn&#8217;t mean your life is all roses.<\/p>\n<p>Leonid Stadnik got frostbite from walking in socks, because he couldn&#8217;t afford custom shoes to fit his frame of 8 feet 5 inches. He walked with crutches when his knees gave out from the strain of supporting 440 lbs. But the Ukrainian has found new hope in the kindness of strangers who sent a giant bicycle to help with transportation and oversized shoes and clothes &#8212; even a computer with internet.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/23781322\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you are in the Guiness World Record book doesn&#8217;t mean your life is all roses. Leonid Stadnik got frostbite from walking in socks, because he couldn&#8217;t afford custom shoes to fit his frame of 8 feet 5 inches. He walked with crutches when his knees gave out from the strain of supporting 440 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}