{"id":2789,"date":"2015-02-03T20:13:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T01:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/burn\/kinston-plant-explosion-12-years-later\/"},"modified":"2018-05-14T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T18:16:14","slug":"kinston-plant-explosion-12-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/burn\/kinston-plant-explosion-12-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Kinston plant explosion &#8211; 12 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class='lead'>Kinston plant explosion changes lives of father, son.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kinston, NC &#8211; Jim Edwards suffered burns on over 60 percent of his body and was permanently blinded when the West Pharmaceutical Plant in Kinston exploded in 2003.  The accident forever impacted the lives of Edwards and his father.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a class=\"external-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/kinston-plant-explosion-changes-lives-of-father-son\/14404757\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">here<\/a> to see more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- description --> <\/p>\n<p class='lead'>Kinston plant explosion changes lives of father, son.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kinston plant explosion - 12 years later - North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/burn\/kinston-plant-explosion-12-years-later\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kinston plant explosion - 12 years later - North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kinston plant explosion changes lives of father, son.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/burn\/kinston-plant-explosion-12-years-later\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-04T01:13:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-05-14T18:16:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Lynn West\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lynn West\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/burn\/kinston-plant-explosion-12-years-later\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/burn\/kinston-plant-explosion-12-years-later\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Lynn West\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/surgery\/burn\/#\/schema\/person\/c20a4eebc77080e34ac63d65c158aaf6\"},\"headline\":\"Kinston plant explosion &#8211; 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