{"id":7372,"date":"2010-01-26T09:18:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2010-01-26T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T17:18:40","slug":"carlsbadistan-paraplegic-to-climb-kilimanjaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=7372","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbadistan Paraplegic To Climb Kilimanjaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/erica_davis.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/erica_davis.jpg','popup','width=302,height=205,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/erica_davis-tm.jpg\" height=\"135\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Erica Davis\" \/><\/a>If everything goes well <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong>Erica Davis<\/strong> will be the first paraplegic woman to climb Africa&#8217;s Mount Kilimanjaro, according to a story on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordnet.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100126\/A_LIFE1201\/1260313\/-1\/a_life\" target=\"_blank\">Recordnet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the help of a specially made wheelchair and a team from the Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology Institute, which will carry her about 60 percent of the time, Davis hopes Monday to be atop the tallest free-standing mountain in the world &#8211; 19,340 feet above sea level. . . &#8220;Reaching the top is showing that it doesn&#8217;t matter what it is, you can do it, because there are people out there willing and wanting to help you,&#8221; Davis said. &#8220;I think it will show other challenged athletes that you have two choices. You can lay there on the couch being depressed or look at it as a new chapter in your book of life. It will bring different things to your life. Your life is not over in any way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Davis was paralyzed from the waist down in 2005 when she suffered a &#8220;cavernous hemangioma.&#8221; Since then she&#8217;s competed in cycling races, triathlons, and two marathons. We&#8217;re pretty confident she&#8217;ll summit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordnet.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100126\/A_LIFE1201\/1260313\/-1\/a_life\" target=\"_blank\">Recordnet.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If everything goes well Carlsbadistan&#8217;s Erica Davis will be the first paraplegic woman to climb Africa&#8217;s Mount Kilimanjaro, according to a story on Recordnet.com. With the help of a specially made wheelchair and a team from the Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology Institute, which will carry her about 60 percent of the time, Davis hopes Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7373,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7372\/revisions\/7373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}