{"id":3477,"date":"2017-08-17T20:43:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T00:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2017-08-17T20:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T00:43:24","slug":"liberty-university-campus-shoe-drive-gets-20000-shoes-10000-to-aid-thousands-in-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=3477","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University campus shoe drive gets 20,000 shoes, $10,000 to aid thousands in Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberty University student, along with the help from an NBA star and an LU alumnus, held an event that raised $10,000 and gathered 20,000 shoes that have helped thousands in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 20 years ago, Emmanuel Ntibonera, now an M.B.A. student at LU, was a refugee from the Congo, which was in the middle of a bloody war that left 5.4 million dead. He eventually emigrated to the U.S. with his parents and eight younger siblings.<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/www.wsls.com\/news\/campus-shoe-drive-gets-20000-shoes-10000-to-aid-thousands-in-congo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Liberty University student, along with the help from an NBA star and an LU alumnus, held an event that raised $10,000 and gathered 20,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=3477\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University campus shoe drive gets 20,000 shoes, $10,000 to aid thousands in Congo<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_0790.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-U5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3479,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}