{"id":26940,"date":"2021-01-17T15:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T06:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/17\/wheelchair-climber-hauls-himself-250-metres-up-hong-kong-skyscraper-for-charity"},"modified":"2021-01-17T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T06:50:53","slug":"wheelchair-climber-hauls-himself-250-metres-up-hong-kong-skyscraper-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26940","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair climber hauls himself 250 metres up Hong Kong skyscraper for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Chi-wai spent 10 hours pulling himself up the tower to raise money for spinal cord patients <\/p>\n<p>Lai Chi-wai has become the first in Hong Kong to climb more than 250 metres of a skyscraper while strapped into a wheelchair, as he pulled himself up for more than 10 hours on Saturday to raise money for spinal cord patients.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old climber, who was paralysed from the waist down in a car accident 10 years ago, could not make it to the top of the 300 metre-tall Nina Tower on the Kowloon peninsula.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/17\/wheelchair-climber-hauls-himself-250-metres-up-hong-kong-skyscraper-for-charity\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lai Chi-wai spent 10 hours pulling himself up the tower to raise money for spinal cord patients Lai Chi-wai has become the first in Hong Kong to climb more than 250 metres of a skyscraper while strapped into a wheelchair, as he pulled himself up for mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1835,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-disability-and-sport","category-hong-kong","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26941,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26940\/revisions\/26941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}