{"id":78,"date":"2021-09-14T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/?p=78"},"modified":"2021-10-10T21:28:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T02:28:22","slug":"new-rides-for-local-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/2021\/09\/14\/new-rides-for-local-parks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Rides For Local Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The city parks and recreation department announced today it has purchased a series of educational rides for children to use in local parks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The total cost to buy and install these rides will be $11,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the rides being installed is the Hanging Gate, an iron pole embedded in the ground with a gate hanging from it. Children push themselves in a circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another is the SuperSlide, which allows young children the thrill of sliding without having to climb a high ladder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money to purchase these rides was made available by Robert T. F. Ho, a local man who owned Quick Stop Laundry. His gift was made anonymous until today. Ho passed away two days ago, and the department, with approval from his widow, revealed his gift publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs. Ho said, &#8220;Robert always enjoyed watching the kids play in the park across the street. He felt sorry for the kids who had to wait to use the equipment, especially the little ones.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city parks and recreation department announced today it has purchased a series of educational rides for children to use in local parks. The total cost to buy and install these rides will be $11,000. Among the rides being installed is the Hanging Gate, an iron pole embedded in the ground with a gate hanging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13929],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-class-assignments","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/cjl010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}