{"id":221,"date":"2018-06-22T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.new.classic-sculpture.com\/?p=221"},"modified":"2019-02-11T02:52:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T02:52:03","slug":"unveiling-of-the-thomas-e-starzl-sculpture-will-be-emotional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"Unveiling of the Thomas E. Starzl sculpture will be emotional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>June 22, 2018 &#8211; Post Gazette<\/strong> &#8211; Joy Starzl still struggles with the absence of her husband, Thomas E. Starzl, the \u201cfather of organ transplantation\u201d who died March 4, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI still haven\u2019t accepted it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That lack of acceptance was a driving force behind a life-size bronze sculpture of Dr. Starzl scheduled to be unveiled at 7:15 p.m. Saturday on the Fifth Avenue side of the Cathedral of Learning in Oakland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Details of the sculpture are a well-guarded secret but emotions are roiling for Mrs. Starzl and Susan Wagner, the Friendship sculptor noted for her Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski sculptures at PNC Park, and the two children with a sea lion at the Pittsburgh Zoo, among others.<br><br>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/ae\/art-architecture\/2018\/06\/22\/Thomas-Starzl-sculpture-unveiling-Cathedral-of-Learning-University-of-Pittsburgh\/stories\/201806220013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read More... (opens in a new tab)\">Read More&#8230;<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 22, 2018 &#8211; Post Gazette &#8211; Joy Starzl still struggles with the absence of her husband, Thomas E. Starzl, the \u201cfather of organ transplantation\u201d who died March 4, 2017. \u201cI still haven\u2019t accepted it,\u201d she said. That lack of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}