{"id":10788,"date":"2011-10-20T15:22:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T19:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10788"},"modified":"2011-10-20T13:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T17:15:59","slug":"michelle-obama-helps-retrofit-wounded-vets-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10788","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama Helps Retrofit Wounded Vet&#8217;s Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> &#8212; Army<strong> Sgt. Johnny Agbi&#8217;<\/strong>s narrow three-story rowhouse doesn&#8217;t look ideal for a disabled veteran. It&#8217;s perched on a small hill along a busy thoroughfare just blocks from the U. S. Capitol. There are steps leading to the front and rear doors.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a $100,000 renovation, the first floor has been transformed, with wide entrances, a spacious kitchen with new appliances and a large, accessible bathroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Lady Michelle Obama<\/strong> and <strong>Jill Biden<\/strong>, the wife of <strong>Vice President Joe Biden<\/strong>, visited Monday to help finish off the renovation, which was retrofitted through a charitable venture called Heroes at Home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agbi,<\/strong> 32, was the 1,000th veteran whose home was renovated under the program, which began in 2007 and is a joint venture between the nonprofit Rebuilding Together and Sears Holding Corp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Army Sgt. Johnny Agbi&#8217;s narrow three-story rowhouse doesn&#8217;t look ideal for a disabled veteran. It&#8217;s perched on a small hill along a busy thoroughfare just blocks from the U. S. Capitol. There are steps leading to the front and rear doors. Thanks to a $100,000 renovation, the first floor has been transformed, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}