{"id":83753,"date":"2004-09-03T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a073320e-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2004-09-03T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T07:30:00","slug":"a0733221-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a0733221-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Free wheelchairs to be distributed today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 280 new wheelchairs will be given out today to eligible CNMI residents.<\/p>\n<p>Wheelchair Foundation\u2019s David Ayres said people in need of the equipment should go to the East-West Rental warehouse on Middle Road (near H-Mart) today beginning at 10am. <\/p>\n<p>He said East-West Rental allowed the local organization to use its warehouse for the purpose. AIC Marianas provided personnel to bring the wheelchairs to the warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Ayers, in partnership with Robert Erickson of UCEDD at Northern Marianas College, began the program in June 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Ayres said the CNMI office successfully raised $21,000 from local businesses and residents to pay for half of the total price. Among the businesses that contributed were Pacific Amusement, Verizon, and Duty Free Shoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 280 new wheelchairs will be given out today to eligible CNMI residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}