{"id":10620,"date":"2025-10-30T23:27:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T23:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/iowa\/?post_type=jdrf_event&#038;p=10620"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:41:35","slug":"boyer","status":"publish","type":"jdrf_event","link":"https:\/\/www.breakthrought1d.org\/iowa\/events\/boyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Fund A Cure with Barry Boyer | Breakthrough T1D Cedar Rapids Gala 2025"},"author":1319,"featured_media":10622,"template":"","event-categories":[1061],"class_list":["post-10620","jdrf_event","type-jdrf_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","jdrf_event_category-other"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fund A Cure with Barry Boyer | Breakthrough T1D Cedar Rapids Gala 2025 - Iowa Chapter<\/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.breakthrought1d.org\/iowa\/events\/boyer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fund A Cure with Barry Boyer | Breakthrough T1D Cedar Rapids Gala 2025 - Iowa Chapter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On November 1, 2025, the Breakthrough T1D Promise Gala will celebrate 23 years of relentless hope, unwavering commitment, and life-changing progress in the fight against type 1 diabetes.  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