{"id":10591,"date":"2012-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/lollipop\/?p=10591"},"modified":"2013-02-06T11:13:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T11:13:38","slug":"kevin-rudd-gets-a-rock-star-welcome-at-radio-lollipop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/?p=10591","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Rudd gets rock star welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 26th Prime Minister of Australia received a rock star welcome from the children and our team of excited volunteers when he visited Radio Lollipop at the Mater Children&#8217;s Hospital in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rudd visited some of children on the wards and even brought a gift for a child by the name of Tom who happened to be celebrating his 10th birthday in hospital that day. It was then over to the playroom to craft up a storm with the kids, followed by a very serious radio interview with Penelope Passport where he announced to all the children that his favourite flavoured ice-cream is chocolate on chocolate!<\/p>\n<p>After a grueling 20 minute interview with Radio Lollipop DJ Penelope Passport, Mr Rudd turned the tables by asking some tricky questions of his own&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video evidence&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Visit to Radio Lollipop at the Mater Children&#039;s Hospital\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQbuYZ851V4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/DBFBxWutGqY<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t call us the Wacky Wednesday team for nothing \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Kevin Rudd for taking the time to visit the children and families at the Mater Hospital and for lifting the spirits of our wonderful team of volunteers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 26th Prime Minister of Australia received a rock star welcome from the children and our team of excited volunteers when he visited Radio Lollipop at the Mater Children&#8217;s Hospital in Brisbane. Mr Rudd visited some of children on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/?p=10591\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiolollipop.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}