{"id":8320,"date":"2019-09-01T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T23:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/it-gave-me-hope-new-zealand-charity-gives-refugees-bikes-and-teaches-them-to-ride"},"modified":"2019-09-01T08:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T23:30:01","slug":"it-gave-me-hope-new-zealand-charity-gives-refugees-bikes-and-teaches-them-to-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8320","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It gave me hope&#8217;: New Zealand charity gives refugees bikes and teaches them to ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bike riding courses run in Auckland are such a hit that ReBicycle is urgently looking for more volunteers<\/p>\n<p>Leila Rahimi was so scared when she first moved to New Zealand that she struggled to leave the house; and would spend days working up the courage to walk to the supermarket for basic supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so, so depressed, and I was so down and so unhappy,\u201d says Rahimi, 36, a football player and coach from Iran who arrived in New Zealand as a refugee in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/01\/it-gave-me-hope-new-zealand-charity-gives-refugees-bikes-and-teaches-them-to-ride\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bike riding courses run in Auckland are such a hit that ReBicycle is urgently looking for more volunteersLeila Rahimi was so scared when she first moved to New Zealand that she struggled to leave the house; and would spend days working up the courage t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"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":[41,676,78,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cycling","category-life-and-style","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320","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\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8356,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8320\/revisions\/8356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}