{"id":5799,"date":"2014-10-13T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/?p=5799"},"modified":"2014-10-13T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T19:01:08","slug":"team-james-murtha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/2014\/10\/13\/team-james-murtha\/","title":{"rendered":"Team James Murtha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5804\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murtha.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5804\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5804\" src=\"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murtha-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from the Team James Murtha Facebook page\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murtha-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/murtha.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from: The Team James Murtha Facebook page<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On October 5, NCC alumni James Murtha suffered a mountain biking accident in Colorado. \u00a0James fractured his neck at C3, C4 and C5. He is currently\u00a0not able to move his arms or legs, but does however have some feeling in limited parts of his body making this an incomplete sp<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">inal cord injury. On the night of the injury he was taken for emergency surgery to relieve the pressure on his spinal cord. He initially was breathing on his own, but later in the week\u00a0needed to be placed on a\u00a0ventilator (life support). He has not suffered any brain injury, was awake and alert and in good spirits right up until the time he was placed on the ventilator, and has since been in and out of consciousness.\u00a0James and the Murtha family is requesting\u00a0prayers, thoughts and good feelings\u00a0sent their way as they face the many challenges ahead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While at NCC, James was involved in Varsity Wrestling, Varsity Football, multiple theater productions, Choir, SADD, and was also a member of the famed &#8220;Trinity&#8221;. The Trinity was comprised of James, (and fellow &#8217;08 grads) Liz Irish, and Nick Awrey. Together they were alter servers at every mass for approximately two years. For more information and to follow and support James on his journey, please visit the Team James Murtha Facebook page:\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/teamJAMESmurtha<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 5, NCC alumni James Murtha suffered a mountain biking accident in Colorado. \u00a0James fractured his neck at C3, C4 and C5. He is currently\u00a0not able to move his arms or legs, but does however have some feeling in limited parts of his body making this an incomplete spinal cord injury. On the night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5805,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5799\/revisions\/5805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}