{"id":31346,"date":"2014-07-12T12:27:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-12T12:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=31346"},"modified":"2014-07-12T12:29:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-12T12:29:09","slug":"muntari-saves-dying-child-donates-5000-for-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=31346","title":{"rendered":"Muntari saves dying child; donates $5,000 for heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana midfielder, Sulley Muntari has saved an ailing girl from death after donating a cash of $5,000 to assist her undergo heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The three-year-old, known as Essor, needed to cough up $5,000 to undergo surgery for a hole-in-heart problem.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors had revealed she would die in the next couple of days if her family failed to find the said amount for the operation.<\/p>\n<p>The AC Milan star, who is famous for his charitable work, was touched by the emotional appeal on a local television station, TV Africa, and rode there on his motorbike himself to make the generous offer on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari disguised himself and went to the station without being noticed by employees.<\/p>\n<p>It was only at the point of making the donation that they took notice of his presence and rushed on him for photographs.<\/p>\n<p>The former Portsmouth star has been slapped with an indefinite suspension from the Black Stars after he was reported to have attack a top Ghana FA official.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently in Ghana on holidays and will fly out in the next couple of days.<\/p>\n<p>Muntari was one of Ghana\u2019s outstanding players at the 2014 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Daily Graphic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana midfielder, Sulley Muntari has saved an ailing girl from death after donating a cash of $5,000 to assist her undergo heart surgery. The three-year-old, known as Essor, needed to cough up $5,000 to undergo surgery for a hole-in-heart problem. Doctors had revealed she would die in the next couple of days if her family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-31346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}