{"id":20275,"date":"2013-04-01T08:57:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T12:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=20275"},"modified":"2013-04-01T08:57:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T12:57:49","slug":"wright-state-gets-13k-for-new-sports-wheelchairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/04\/01\/wright-state-gets-13k-for-new-sports-wheelchairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright State gets $13K for new sports wheelchairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In a friendly round of basketball at Wright State University, William Howard rolled under the hoop and took a shot. The sophomore from Dayton does not require a wheelchair, but every week he joins other students, both able-bodied and those who are disabled, for adapted intramurals.<\/p>\n<p>Those games of basketball, football and capture the flag will soon be open to more students thanks to a grant from the Christopher &amp; Dana Reeve Foundation and a cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The organization donated $13,000 for Wright State to purchase newer, safer wheelchairs. Christopher Reeve, best known for his role as Superman, was paralyzed from the neck down after being thrown from a horse in 1995 and passed away in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State expects the Quality of Life Grant to fund the purchase of 10 new wheelchairs, which will be used for sports and educational purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/news\/wright-state-gets-13k-for-new-sports-wheelchairs\/nW6nd\/\" target=\"_blank\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt In a friendly round of basketball at Wright State University, William Howard rolled under the hoop and took a shot. The sophomore from Dayton does not require a wheelchair, but every week he joins other students, both able-bodied and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/04\/01\/wright-state-gets-13k-for-new-sports-wheelchairs\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20275"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20284,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20275\/revisions\/20284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}