{"id":7746,"date":"2018-11-11T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=7746"},"modified":"2018-11-11T12:13:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T20:13:55","slug":"blind-veterans-kayak-the-grand-canyon-taking-street-view-along-for-the-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/11\/blind-veterans-kayak-the-grand-canyon-taking-street-view-along-for-the-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind veterans kayak the Grand Canyon, taking Street View along for the ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This completely blows my mind. Have a happy, reflective, and grateful Veteran\u2019s Day, everyone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WH9xGn5cIkQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/streetview\/#blind-veterans-navigate-the-grand-canyon\">Check out their 360\u00ba captures<\/a> on Google Street View. Blind Navy vet &amp; expedition leader Lonnie Bedwell <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/blind-kayakers-grand-canyon\/\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I believe we can\u2019t abandon our sense of adventure because we lose our ability to see it, and it has become my goal to help people who live with similar challenges, and show them that anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, I became the first blind person to kayak the entire 226 miles of the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon But, I always felt it didn\u2019t mean anything unless I found a way to pay it forward. So I joined up with the good folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teamriverrunner.org\/\">Team River Runner<\/a>, a nonprofit dedicated to providing all veterans and their families an opportunity to find health, healing, community, and purpose. Together we had the audacious goal to support four other blind veterans take a trip down the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/NewImage-11.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"600\" height=\"283\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WH9xGn5cIkQ\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This completely blows my mind. Have a happy, reflective, and grateful Veteran\u2019s Day, everyone. Check out their 360\u00ba captures on Google Street View. Blind Navy vet &amp; expedition leader Lonnie Bedwell writes, I believe we can\u2019t abandon our sense of adventure because we lose our ability to see it, and it has become my goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7748,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions\/7748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}