{"id":21315,"date":"2009-10-04T18:53:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T01:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21315"},"modified":"2010-09-19T09:39:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T16:39:21","slug":"scuba-diving-foundation-helps-those-with-disabilities-learn-new-abilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21315","title":{"rendered":"Scuba Diving &#8211; Foundation Helps Those With Disabilities Learn New Abilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On Saturday, a number of Houstonians with disabilities took on a new ability &#8211; scuba diving. At the Houston Scuba Academy Ana Calvo got her first lesson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;It&#8217;s something that I always wanted to do. I just didn&#8217;t know what there was out there, to do something like this for people with disabilities,&#8221; she said<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Calvo was born without arms or legs, and while her disability has made it difficult for her; it has never stopped her from trying new things. So, when Diveheart president, Jim Elliott, approached Calvo to try out scuba diving she jumped right in&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.39online.com\/news\/local\/kiah-dive-heart-story,0,276073.story\" target=\"_blank\">Details &amp; Video<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, a number of Houstonians with disabilities took on a new ability &#8211; scuba diving. At the Houston Scuba Academy Ana Calvo got her first lesson. &#8220;It&#8217;s something that I always wanted to do. I just didn&#8217;t know what there was out there, to do something like this for people with disabilities,&#8221; she said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fundraiser-andor-volunteer","category-scuba-diving-snorkeling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315","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=21315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37600,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21315\/revisions\/37600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}