{"id":40522,"date":"2025-09-02T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/upstate-fundraiser-supports-rare-disease-affecting-1-in-50000-megans-inspiring-story\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:00:26","slug":"upstate-fundraiser-supports-rare-disease-affecting-1-in-50000-megans-inspiring-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/02\/upstate-fundraiser-supports-rare-disease-affecting-1-in-50000-megans-inspiring-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstate Fundraiser Supports Rare Disease Affecting 1 in 50,000 | Megan\u2019s Inspiring Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kbD7TPk0Dc4?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\ud83c\udf97\ufe0f Fall for Fara is more than a fall festival\u2014it\u2019s a powerful fundraiser in Greer, SC supporting research for Friedreich\u2019s Ataxia (FA), a rare and progressive genetic disorder that affects only 1 in 50,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Megan Ploch, diagnosed with FA at age 13, shares her inspiring story of resilience\u2014from high school worries to earning a biology degree, all while battling a disease that impacts balance, speech, coordination, and even the heart. Now, she\u2019s helping raise funds for a cure through this heartfelt community event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udf97\ufe0f Fall for Fara is more than a fall festival\u2014it\u2019s a powerful fundraiser in Greer, SC supporting research<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}