{"id":37725,"date":"2019-03-28T02:22:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T02:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37725"},"modified":"2019-03-28T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T02:22:14","slug":"former-teen-gamer-starts-charity-after-police-shut-down-his-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37725","title":{"rendered":"Former teen gamer starts charity after police shut down his tournament"},"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":37726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37725","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=37725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}