{"id":34733,"date":"2019-03-08T18:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34733"},"modified":"2019-03-08T18:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:22:30","slug":"seriously-ill-kids-couldnt-play-video-games-so-hes-bringing-the-games-to-them-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34733","title":{"rendered":"Seriously ill kids couldn&#8217;t play video games. So he&#8217;s bringing the games to them."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Ann Arbor, Michigan (CNN)<\/cite>At one point, Zach Wigal had 5,000 video games in his parents&#8217; basement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Yes, 5,000. But it&#8217;s not what you might think.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Wigal is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/gamersoutreach.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gamers Outreach<\/a>, a nonprofit that makes sure that kids who can&#8217;t leave their hospital rooms during long-term medical treatment can play video games while they recuperate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Arbor, Michigan (CNN)At one point, Zach Wigal had 5,000 video games in his parents&#8217; basement.Yes, 5,000. But it&#8217;s not what you might think.Wigal is the founder of Gamers Outreach, a nonprofit that makes sure that kids who can&#8217;t leave their hospital rooms during long-term medical treatment can play video games while they recuperate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}