{"id":34,"date":"2019-10-22T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/?p=34"},"modified":"2019-10-22T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:53:19","slug":"alexs-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/2019\/10\/22\/alexs-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex&#8217;s post"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>We started off today by taking the bus over to St. Ursula&#8217;s Special School. It&#8217;s the only school for children with special needs in eastern Uganda, and it provides the students who attend a chance at life that otherwise would not have been available to them. I spent most of my time playing a game with a non-verbal girl. The game was pretty simple, as it only involved her guessing which hand I had a bottle cap in, but it was something which fascinated her for over an hour. It was an outpouring of pure love from both her and me, and in a country where special needs are so stigmatized, I think that these kinds of connections are exactly what these children deserve. I think St. Ursula&#8217;s is doing a great job at providing this, and I wish them all the best after we leave.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_20191022_203348_exported_250_1571766651974.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_20191022_203348_exported_250_1571766651974.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_20191022_203348_exported_250_1571766651974-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/files\/2019\/10\/IMG_20191022_203348_exported_250_1571766651974-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started off today by taking the bus over to St. Ursula&#8217;s Special School. It&#8217;s the only school for children with special needs in eastern Uganda, and it provides the students who attend a chance at life that otherwise would not have been available to them. I spent most of my time playing a game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/2019\/10\/22\/alexs-post\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alex&#8217;s post<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/dunne-cav-uganda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}