{"id":29462,"date":"2014-02-08T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T21:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=29462"},"modified":"2014-02-07T22:57:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T03:57:57","slug":"veterans-park-academy-fundraiser-held-to-help-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/02\/veterans-park-academy-fundraiser-held-to-help-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Park Academy <br>Fundraiser Held to Help Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29463\" title=\"jumprope\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/jumprope.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"190\" \/>Veterans Park Academy for the Arts hosted a &#8220;Jump Rope for Heart&#8221; event.<\/p>\n<p>The fun-filled day raised money for the American Heart Association while promoting healthy living and physical activity.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Crespi, Third grader at Veterans Park Academy has a heart condition and may need open heart surgery this summer. He says it&#8217;s great to see his school step up and help<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our PE coach is raising money for the heart association because some families can&#8217;t afford treatment,&#8221; Ryan said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->His mom is a para-professional at the school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of the students are doing it for fun, but a lot of them are Ryan&#8217;s friends who are actually taking pride in what they&#8217;re doing. They&#8217;re making a difference and that&#8217;s huge,&#8221; Crespi&#8217;s mom said.<\/p>\n<p>Money raised will be donated in Ryan&#8217;s name to the American Heart Association. It will help other families pay for treatment and fund research.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to donate,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jumphoopsgsa.kintera.org\/faf\/donorReg\/donorPledge.asp?ievent=1083647&amp;lis=0&amp;kntae1083647=6BD37797CA2740809D9F083C8A57D3AB&amp;supid=395378446\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Park Academy for the Arts hosted a &#8220;Jump Rope for Heart&#8221; event. The fun-filled day raised money for the American Heart Association while promoting healthy living and physical activity.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}