{"id":3110,"date":"2019-07-26T10:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:58:29","slug":"londons-wheelie-gang-helps-children-who-use-wheelchairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/2019\/07\/26\/londons-wheelie-gang-helps-children-who-use-wheelchairs\/","title":{"rendered":"London&#8217;s Wheelie Gang helps children who use wheelchairs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2019\/07\/Wheelie-Gang.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3111\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emma from Greenwich set up the Wheelie Gang because her daughter Evie had no friends in her school in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But now, after seeing how many children in wheelchairs feel the same as Evie, Emma&#8217;s project has grown into something she hopes to expand across London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emma uses her local community centre in Greenwich to organise disabled-friendly sports and crafts for children.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-london-49101371\/london-s-wheelie-gang-helps-children-who-use-wheelchairs#\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma from Greenwich set up the Wheelie Gang because her daughter Evie had no friends in her school in a wheelchair. But now, after seeing how many children in wheelchairs feel the same as Evie, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/diversity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}