{"id":610593,"date":"2019-10-28T08:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T08:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=610593"},"modified":"2019-10-29T09:32:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T09:32:03","slug":"book-from-san-diego-zoo-karens-heart-the-true-story-of-a-brave-baby-orangutan-by-georgeanne-irvine-author-on-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/book-from-san-diego-zoo-karens-heart-the-true-story-of-a-brave-baby-orangutan-by-georgeanne-irvine-author-on-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK > From San Diego Zoo >> Karen&#8217;s Heart: The True Story of a Brave Baby Orangutan \u2013 by Georgeanne Irvine (Author) >> On Amazon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>BOOK &gt; From San Diego Zoo &gt;&gt;\u00a0Karen&#8217;s Heart: The True Story of a Brave Baby Orangutan Hardcover \u2013<br \/>\nby Georgeanne Irvine (Author) &gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Karens-Heart-Story-Brave-Orangutan\/dp\/1943198047\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=karen%27s+heart&amp;qid=1572299955&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1\">On Amazon<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71HlF7TD0dL-615x615.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Readers will be inspired by this heartwarming story that connects, engages, and builds empathy for our animal friends. This is the true story of Karen the orangutan&#8217;s brave journey through history-making heart surgery and a challenging recovery and how, in the process, she won the hearts of everyone around her.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/81Yv22E5daL-615x332.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karen the orangutan has always been special to her caretakers at the San Diego Zoo. As a baby, Karen needed extra attention from her human friends so she could thrive in the Zoo nursery after her orangutan mother was unable to care for her. When she was a year old, Karen returned to her orangutan family, but soon her keepers noticed she wasn&#8217;t feeling well much of the time, nor was she growing as quickly as she should. Karen was examined by Zoo veterinarians and cardiologists, who discovered that she had a life-threatening heart murmur, caused by a hole in her heart. To save Karen&#8217;s life, a surgery team from UC San Diego Medical Center performed open-heart surgery on her; the first time this had ever been done on an orangutan.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-610595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71Z4n8YrGTL-615x615.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71Z4n8YrGTL.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71Z4n8YrGTL-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71Z4n8YrGTL-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71Z4n8YrGTL-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/71Z4n8YrGTL-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/> \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-610597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51YsS7CUNYL-615x616.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51YsS7CUNYL.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51YsS7CUNYL-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51YsS7CUNYL-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51YsS7CUNYL-115x115.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/51YsS7CUNYL-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOK &gt; From San Diego Zoo &gt;&gt;\u00a0Karen&#8217;s Heart: The True Story of a Brave Baby Orangutan Hardcover \u2013 by Georgeanne Irvine (Author) &gt;&gt; On Amazon Readers will be inspired by this heartwarming story that connects, engages, and builds empathy for our animal friends. This is the true story of Karen the orangutan&#8217;s brave journey through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":610598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ulster-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610980,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610593\/revisions\/610980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}