{"id":551,"date":"2012-09-03T14:41:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/?p=551"},"modified":"2012-09-03T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T14:41:12","slug":"round-wales-charity-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/news\/round-wales-charity-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Round Wales charity walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_552\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/files\/2012\/09\/charity-walker.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\" wp-image-552 \" title=\"Charity walker gets sponsorship boost\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/files\/2012\/09\/charity-walker.jpg\" alt=\"Charity walker gets sponsorship boost\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/files\/2012\/09\/charity-walker.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/files\/2012\/09\/charity-walker-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\" wp-image-552  lazyload\" title=\"Charity walker gets sponsorship boost\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20540%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Charity walker gets sponsorship boost\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20540%20360%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/files\/2012\/09\/charity-walker.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/files\/2012\/09\/charity-walker-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/files\/2012\/09\/charity-walker.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charity walker gets sponsorship boost<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A charity walker who is walking around Wales to help a three-year-old girl take her first steps has had a boost from a specialist orthotics company.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ace Feet in Motion, based in Cardiff,&nbsp; has given David Summers a pair of specially designed trainers and inserts to help him successfully cover the mileage.<\/p>\n<p>David aims to walk 20 miles per day in order to complete the 500-mile journey in the period 14 September-8 October.<\/p>\n<p>He hopes to raise \u00a310,000 to help cerebral palsy sufferer, Olivia Robinson, receive vital treatment to help her walk,&nbsp; at the Footsteps Clinic in Oxford.<\/p>\n<p>David, who works with Olivia\u2019s mum, Beth., at the Office for National Statistics in Newport, was moved by the little girl\u2019s plight, and decided to embark on a fund-raising walk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOlivia\u2019s sessions at the Footsteps Clinic had a huge impact on her ability to walk, but without regular treatment her muscles stiffen and she is back to squate one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money will help pay for a sustained course of treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy journey has been supported by Ace, who have kindly given me the correct footear to ensure that the strain of walking 20 miles per day for 25 days doesn\u2019t&nbsp; become too much for my body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olivia\u2019s parents, Daniel and Beth, both 29,&nbsp; hope that the treatment will result in her eventually walking unaided, although this is a long way off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A charity walker who is walking around Wales to help a three-year-old girl take her first steps has had a boost from a specialist orthotics company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[485,59,1,47,335],"tags":[1433,818,817,816,815],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charity","category-featured","category-news","category-sport","category-wales","tag-charity","tag-david-summers","tag-footsteps-clinic","tag-specialist-orthotics","tag-walker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}