{"id":339,"date":"2007-11-12T23:13:31","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T23:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2007\/11\/12\/rapidly-growing-12-year-old-almost-7-feet-tall\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T23:20:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T23:20:16","slug":"rapidly-growing-12-year-old-almost-7-feet-tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2007\/11\/12\/rapidly-growing-12-year-old-almost-7-feet-tall\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapidly Growing 12-Year-Old Almost 7-Feet Tall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2007%2F11%2F12%2Frapidly-growing-12-year-old-almost-7-feet-tall%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"fulgerica\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2007\/11\/12\/rapidly-growing-12-year-old-almost-7-feet-tall\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/2007\/11\/12\/rapidly-growing-12-year-old-almost-7-feet-tall\/#more-339\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.kimatv.com\/images\/brendenadams.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/media.kimatv.com\/images\/brendenadams.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In kindergarten, I was as tall as the fourth graders.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brenden Adams may be the only one in the world with this condition &#8212; that certainly makes him unique &#8212; but to Brenden nothing&#8217;s different about him at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In kindergarten I was as tall as the 4th graders,&#8221; Adams said, who as the years went on just kept growing and growing.<\/p>\n<p>Within a recent two-and-a-half year period he grew 15 inches (38.1 cm). At 5-years-old, he was as tall as his older brother, who was more than twice his age.<\/p>\n<p>The reason why he&#8217;s getting so much attention is that at nearly 7-feet-tall (2.1 meter), Adams is only 12.<\/p>\n<p>In the past couple years simple tasks have gotten a lot harder. &#8220;Pretty much every place I go, I have to duck,&#8221; said Adams.<\/p>\n<p>He finally stopped growing this year, but he&#8217;s got other medical conditions, like extremely large joints.<\/p>\n<p>But doctors can&#8217;t explain it so they can&#8217;t treat him, and they can&#8217;t reassure his family that Adams will live a long life.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0\" height=\"260\" width=\"320\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/cs_api\/get_swf\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&amp;va_id=441992&amp;wpid=1904\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/cs_api\/get_swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" flashvars=\"swfHome=eplayer.clipsyndicate.com&amp;va_id=441992&amp;wpid=1904\" height=\"345\" width=\"425\"><\/object><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimatv.com\/news\/local\/11161021.html\">Kimatv<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Ffulgerica.com%2Fen%2F2007%2F11%2F12%2Frapidly-growing-12-year-old-almost-7-feet-tall%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet &#8220;In kindergarten, I was as tall as the fourth graders.&#8221; Brenden Adams may be the only one in the world with this condition &#8212; that certainly makes him unique &#8212; but to Brenden nothing&#8217;s different about him at all. &#8220;In kindergarten I was as tall as the 4th graders,&#8221; Adams said, who as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fulgerica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}