{"id":58435,"date":"2019-09-27T09:37:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=58435"},"modified":"2019-09-27T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T09:37:06","slug":"this-brazilian-grandfather-has-vitiligo-and-he-crochets-dolls-for-kids-with-the-same-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/09\/27\/this-brazilian-grandfather-has-vitiligo-and-he-crochets-dolls-for-kids-with-the-same-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"This Brazilian grandfather has vitiligo, and he crochets dolls for kids with the same condition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Vitiligo is a skin ailment which causes loss of skin color\nin blotches, and it tends to grow over time. Around 0.5 \u2013 1% of the world\u2019s population\nhas this skin condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jo\u00e3o Stanganelli, a 64-year-old Brazilian granddad has\nvitiligo. He recently retired from working after facing some health issues and\ndecided to take up crocheting as a hobby with this wife. After mastering rug\nand animal designs, Stanganelli decided to make a special doll for his\ngranddaughter that included vitiligo patches so she\u2019d always remember him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says his granddaughter was overjoyed, and Stanganelli was\nso proud of the creation that he shared a photo of it online. Soon after,\nStanganelli began getting requests from people looking for their own\n\u201cvitilindas\u201d and \u201cvitilindos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, he\u2019s created about 200 custom dolls, including a\ndoll in a wheelchair, a doll with alopecia and one with a cochlear implant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/grandfather-vitiligo-crochets-dolls-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/grandfather-vitiligo-crochets-dolls-kids\/ (opens in a new tab)\">https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/grandfather-vitiligo-crochets-dolls-kids\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vitiligo is a skin ailment which causes loss of skin color in blotches, and it tends to grow over time. Around 0.5 \u2013 1% of the world\u2019s population has this skin condition. Jo\u00e3o Stanganelli, a 64-year-old Brazilian granddad has vitiligo. He recently retired from working after facing some health issues and decided to take up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}