{"id":16770,"date":"2009-07-16T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16770"},"modified":"2012-08-05T14:48:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T21:48:42","slug":"inline-skating-fundraiser-a-capital-idea-gary-walters-and-son-will-skate-to-washington-to-raise-awareness-for-kinship-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=16770","title":{"rendered":"Inline Skating Fundraiser &#8211; A capital idea: Gary Walters and son will skate to Washington to raise awareness for Kinship Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr. Walters is going to Washington. And he&#8217;ll be getting there on in-line skates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gary Walters on Wednesday announced his latest Kinship Partners challenge, in-line skating for almost a month from Brainerd to Washington, D.C., with his son, Jackson.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gary Walters&#8217; Kinship challenges are an effort to raise funds and awareness for Kinship Partners, the nonprofit organization that matches adult mentors with children.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 2003, he biked from Baxter to New Orleans. In 2004, he camped out for more than a week on top of Brainerd&#8217;s historic water tower. In 2005, he walked the length of Minnesota in 17 days. In 2006, he swam across Lake Mille Lacs. In 2007, he lost 100 pounds in a year. In 2008, he unicycled around the track at Adamson Field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He got the idea for this year&#8217;s challenge during a &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainerddispatch.com\/stories\/071609\/new_20090716031.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Walters is going to Washington. And he&#8217;ll be getting there on in-line skates. Gary Walters on Wednesday announced his latest Kinship Partners challenge, in-line skating for almost a month from Brainerd to Washington, D.C., with his son, Jackson.\u00c2\u00a0 Gary Walters&#8217; Kinship challenges are an effort to raise funds and awareness for Kinship Partners, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-skate-roller-inline-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67917,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16770\/revisions\/67917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}