{"id":4230,"date":"2018-07-28T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/?p=4230"},"modified":"2018-07-28T17:17:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T21:17:52","slug":"spinal-cord-reality-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/spinal-cord-reality-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinal Cord Reality Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycspinalcord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Recent-trends-in-causes-of-SCI-2015.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center,<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0violence is the 3rd leading cause of spinal cord injury and more than 13% of those injuries are caused by gun shot wounds.\u00a0 NYCSCIA has partnered with Namel Norris and Ricardo Velasquez to try and do something about this by launching a new initiative to reach out to school kids through music called\u00a0<strong>The Welcome to Reality Tour<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Hip Hop Performers Send a Message<\/h2>\n<p class=\"\">Namel \u201cTapwaterz\u201dNorris and Ricardo \u201cRickfire\u201d Velasquez formed the Hip Hop duo,\u00a04 Wheel City, after becoming paralyzed from gun violence as teenagers.\u00a0 For the last 10 years they have brought their story of survival and redemption to audiences across the county, introducing a \u201chip\u201d new way to engage today\u2019s youth in a conversation about violence and its consequences through a combination \u00a0of storytelling and musical performances.<\/p>\n<p>4 Wheel City has performed across the nation including the Disability Pride Parade in NYC, the\u00a0U.S. Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C. , the Abilities Expos in NYC and LA and has been featured on the cover of New Mobility magazine and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/s8KDvn2nrt4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY1 Persons of the Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Bring the Tour to your school or facility.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Contact:\u00a0 Namel Norris (aka Tapwaterz) or Ricardo Velasquez (Rickfire)<\/p>\n<p>Phone:\u00a0 646-204-1453\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Email:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.4wheelcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4wheelcity@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycspinalcord.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Welcome2RealityTour2016_Revised-Flier-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download a Flyer<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the\u00a0National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center,\u00a0violence is the 3rd leading cause of spinal cord injury and more than 13% of those injuries are caused by gun shot wounds.\u00a0 NYCSCIA has partnered with Namel Norris and Ricardo Velasquez to try and do something about this by launching a new initiative to reach out to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4230\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4wheelcity.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}